These tax hikes would be so big, in fact, that top-bracket taxpayers might end up paying a rate of 67 percent on ordinary income and nearly 50 percent on capital gains.
In this topsy-turvy environment, you might be better off turning the conventional year-end advice on its head if your bracket will be higher next year, says John Hewitt, chief executive of Liberty Tax Service, a national tax preparation firm based in Virginia Beach, Va.
Mr Dell added that the new touchscreen products would cost more to produce than their non-touch equivalents, suggesting they should fall within the price bracket Dell targets, rather than the super-low end of the market that it had opted out of.