Bear in mind that in calculating this income you dont count municipal bond interest or unrealized capital gains.
Levies across securities (on capital gains, on dividends and on bond interest) are going up.
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Bond interest costs are a key measure of Europe's effort to keep its debt problems in check.
Romney has little municipal bond interest income, which means he paid more Massachusetts state taxes than others customarily do.
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As long as the U.S. government keeps bond interest rates low, these dollars are still exposed to our inflation.
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The "base" calculation includes one-half your Social Security, plus almost all your other income, including tax-exempt bond interest but not Roth withdrawals.
The second reason for likely interest rate increases can be attributed to the correlation between the Federal Funds Rate and bond interest rates.
Unlike corporate bonds or U.S. Treasuries, muni bond interest is often federal tax-free and exempt from state income tax of the state they are issued.
Long-term Treasury bond interest rates are at about 4.4 percent, which reflects the belief that inflation will remain tame for an extended period of time.
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The target was designed to keep big borrowers like Brazil from defaulting on their debt service by budgeting enough money to cover bond interest to foreign investors.
The fund is a crucial part of the ECB's plan, announced last week, to buy bonds to help European countries when market forces push bond interest rates too high.
Tax-free municipal-bond interest isn't subject to the 3.8% tax.
Treat state and local bond interest as taxable.
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While much was recently said about the future of municipal bonds, investors were finally able to take a breather following the fiscal cliff negotiations and talks about whether to tax muni bond interest or not.
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On taxes, Mr Obama has stapled together a clutch of previous proposals: returning tax rates on the wealthy to where they were before Mr Bush cut them in 2001, and curbing deductions such as those for municipal-bond interest, mortgages and charitable giving.
That means contributions to 401(k)s and other retirement plans, as well as itemized deductions for charitable giving, mortgage interest and state and local taxes would be hit by the 28% limit and municipal bond interest would only be exempt at the 28% rate.
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This tax is assessed to filers who have large amounts of certain types of income, such as ISO bargain elements or municipal bond interest, and is designed to ensure that the taxpayer pays at least a minimal amount of tax on income that would otherwise be tax-free.
You can use money that you borrow in order to calculate the deduction but you cannot claim a deduction or credit based on expenses paid with tax-free scholarship, fellowship, grant, or education savings account funds such as a Coverdell education savings account, tax-free savings bond interest or employer-provided education assistance.
As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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This is why bond prices fall when interest rates rise, and why bond prices rise when interest rates fall.
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Including, if you should so with, synthetics which all involve a currency transaction which mimics the movement of any bond, interest rate, stock, commodity.
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Bond prices and interest rates are inversely related, meaning that as yields fell over the past three decades, bond prices rose.
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Even after a bump in recent weeks, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond sports an interest rate of less than 2%.
Higher bond prices lower interest costs, and that has helped companies refinance debt, stay in business and keep employees in their jobs.
If successful, bond yields will rise and all you need is 2% bond yields for interest costs to eat up 80% of Japanese government revenues.
The longer term bond pays more interest than the shorter-bonds.
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Another reason demand for the long bond has been so voracious is that a lot of investment banks still use them to hedge their corporate-bond positions and interest-rate swaps (between fixed- and floating-rate obligations).
But for your Uncle Al living in Boca, if he is paying 20% over the value of Treasury bonds at par today to get interest payments of just 1.6%, he is going to get next to nothing in real income after inflation, and he is going to watch the value of his bond plummet once interest rates start rising again, forecast to occur by 2014.
Should European interest rates start to rise, investors may switch back to less risky government bond markets particularly as higher interest rates tend to put heavily indebted junk-bond issuers under stress.
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