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If you feel like the estate-tax exemption limit has bounced around a lot, you're right.
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They often avoid the 3.8% tax, the Pease limit and the Personal Exemption Phaseout as well.
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Like Taibbi, Kaufman traces the beginnings of the increased commodity price volatility to 1991, presumably when the CFTC granted Goldman the exemption from the 5000 contract speculative limit in the commodities futures markets.
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It begins with a 15% flat rate, but taxpayers who cross certain income thresholds owe more because of the 3.8% net investment income tax, the Pease limit and the Personal Exemption Phaseout, or PEP, a backdoor increase that limits personal exemptions.
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With the top tax rate now over 40 percent (including the phase-outs of the personal exemption and itemized deductions), Congress may be reaching the limit of its ability to continue to raise rates without facing the law of diminishing returns.
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Limit Duration of generation skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption.
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Investors obtained through the crowdfunding exemption do not count toward investor limits imposed by other securities laws (such as the limit on the number of stockholders can have before being considered a de-facto public company).
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The exemption was revoked in 2006 after the agency found it was being used in significant excess of that limit, with some estimates as high as 9, 000 annually.
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