Of course, companies operating at full capacity would be happy to take the tax cut.
In short, he seems pretty happy with the individual tax code while he supports more business tax cuts.
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Bottom line: The people of this country will never be happy until the income tax system is eliminated altogether and replaced with a very simple tax system that, ideally, requires nothing of the individual.
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If tax money ends up in terrific parks and bicycle trails, again, tax payers are happy.
But instead they seem happy to try to enhance tax fairness by merely raising rates on the rich by a lot.
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And don't forget that the ObamaCare investment income tax surcharge of 3.8% also begins in 2013, so stock owners are going to be happy to hear that the new dividend tax rate could be 48% in the name of tax fairness.
And if they're sincere about it, then I'm happy to have conversations about this tax cut versus that tax cut, or this infrastructure project versus that infrastructure project.
If they were a billionaire, the beneficiaries may be very happy, escaping all that estate tax even if they do get some assets with a low basis that triggers income tax when sold.
Try to think of another industry where businesses can charge tens of thousands of dollars for their services, while at the same time receiving donations from happy old customers and receiving preferential tax treatment from Uncle Sam.
Another bonus to the trend: the gift giver, not the happy couple, gets to take any charitable tax deduction.
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The Brazilian government gave foreign corporate and portfolio investors their version of a Black Friday today, with sweeping tax cuts that kept investors in happy.
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Now, I do know people who've bought them, because they just think they're good investments, and they're happy to pay the little bit of income tax if held in a taxable account.
But their most visible reform, the introduction of a 10% value-added tax, has not been a wholly happy experience.
On the other hand, the same poll found that rather more of them were happy to be friends with people who fiddle their tax returns.
He, as recently as last week, I think on ABC, said that he would be happy to check if he paid a lower effective tax rate in previous years than the 13.9 percent that he paid in the year related to the tax return that he did release.
Although it is later rather than sooner, I have no problem with Phil changing his state of residence for tax purposes so long as he is otherwise happy with this decision.
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What would make me happy is Wall Street pays for its sins with a transaction tax.
There's a little bit of happy news for investors in these catastrophes: The funds have tax losses.
In effect what the Chancellor has said is that if an individual cannot afford to pay their tax any other way, the Revenue will be happy to collect the outstanding liability by credit card payment.
As of Thursday afternoon, The Washington Post reports, the administration is now considering a temporary payroll tax holiday and a permanent extension of the research and development tax credit, both of which would make businesses very happy.
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Rick Santorum took his nostalgia for manufacturing to 2nd place in the recent GOP presidential primary, but lost on his partisans is the simple and happy truth that manufacturing of the labor intensive variety, no matter the tax subsidies, will never return to the United States.
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Employees must share tax forms, birth certificates and marriage licenses to make auditors happy. (One frustrated employee sent an auditor a wedding ring to prove he was married.) As many as 15% of dependents can be bounced because the employee is divorced or because minors, including stepchildren, nephews and nieces, are 18 or older and not full-time students.
When tax money goes into public schools that actually work, taxpayers appear happy to pay the taxes.
And one more thing: your tax pros are working as hard as they can to make you happy.
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Last-minute fiscal cliff deals, tax increases and the brewing storm around government spending do not a happy consumer make.
If tax money goes into public schools that actually produce results, taxpayers appear happy to pay the taxes.
Why should i be happy about senors over 55 not be effected by these vouchers knowing full well that my tax money will still go to support their medical care.
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When tax money ends up in terrific parks and bicycle trails, again, taxpayers are happy--or at least willing--to pay for them.
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