As a result, by 2009, these Reagan Republican tax policies led to the middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, paying only 2.7% of all federal income taxes, while earning 15% of before-tax income.
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In sharp contrast, in that same year, the middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, paid 2.7% of total federal individual income taxes on net, while earning 15% of before-tax income.
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Are executives rushing to exercise nonqualified options before income tax rates rise for the rich?
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Valuation multiples for minatory transactions are estimated at the 5x-7x earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) range, while outright control purchases carry higher multiples.
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While 90% of its earnings before income tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) come from five key industrial assets, the company has its marketing unit as a substantial cash cow.
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The fundamental blunder in all of these studies and reports is that the 1986 tax reform radically changed what is reported on income tax returns, so income before is not comparable to income after.
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At least the Fair Tax Plan proposal requires a Constitutional Convention to eliminate the income tax before instituting a national sales tax.
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This makes it singularly inappropriate to use tax data to compare income shares before and after the explosion of tax deferred accounts.
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Administration officials point to a report by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week that determined that in Oregon and Washington the competition is lowering premium rates even before income-based tax credits are taken into account.
After my story ran last year, some curious readers asked if a New York City winner could simply move to a state without an income tax before claiming his or her prize and thereby escape the hefty New York tax.
After my story ran last March, some curious readers asked if a New York City winner could simply move to a state without an income tax before claiming his or her prize and thereby escape the hefty New York tax.
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Comparing income before and after taxes, CBO says the tax system cut the share of income going to the top 20% by about seven percentage points in 2007, most of that coming from the top 1%.
Millions of Americans are hustling to file their income tax returns before the deadline.
On Monday, before he released his income and tax figures, Mr Romney defended his tax record at a Republican presidential debate in Florida.
Hyatt insists he moved to Nevada (which has no income tax) before getting the fees and is suing California in a Nevada court for invasion of privacy.
Moreover, most income from executive stock options is now reported as W-2 wage income, while before tax reform it was reported as capital gains when exercised.
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That was a first for Congress: in the four cases regarding income tax brought before the Court, not one had ever struck down a law as unconstitutional.
As you might expect, giant companies generally pay lower effective tax rates (income before taxes divided by taxes paid) than smaller companies, although both groups are subject to the same statutory corporate tax rate that tops out at 37 percent.
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Those who are now in and likely to remain in the top income brackets should plan for higher tax rates and think hard before they defer income.
Supply-side tax cuts occur at the marginal rates of the income tax, whereas Keynesian tax cuts occur before those rates.
This means that the IRS will not process ANY individual income tax returns submitted before that date.
Members of the armed forces may qualify for a deferral of income tax payments due before or during military service.
Clemens Fuest, an Oxford don who advises the finance ministry, reckons the government will find some money for income-tax relief before the next federal election in 2013, although less than it promised at the outset.
Those with incomes above the bottom 10% and below the top 10% have benefited from the increases in the amount they can earn before they have to pay any income tax, even if they have suffered from their wages failing to keep up with rising prices, which is not reflected in these figures.
If capital-gains tax rates are lower than income-tax rates (as they were in America before George Bush's tax reforms of 2003), an investor may prefer to sell his shares into a buy-back.
Under the Tax Code, a NOL results when your tax deductions exceed your taxable income before you deduct your personal exemptions.
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The top quintile accounts for 50.8 percent of before tax and 47.2 percent of after tax income.
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The USG did just that for a very long time before 1913, which also brought the necessity of an income tax as surety to the bankers.
One is that the financial aid rules, in determining discretionary income, count your income tax bill as it would have been before you claimed the American Opportunity credit.
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has compiled tax and income statistics from 1979 to 2007, just before the financial market meltdown.
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