In addition to the federal capital gains tax you owe when you sell appreciated assets, 42 states (and some local governments too) add another layer of tax, and only a few of them have lower rates for long-term gains.

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Deepening the gloom, another new Chinese law comes into effect on May 1st, subjecting any transfer of a state-controlled asset to yet another layer of review, this time by a local commission.

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We are holding to a pattern of no installations on a individual local machine to experience our version of multitasking and a integrated social management layer.

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In the old system, Dole and its local partner shipped produce to Japanese brokers, who in turn worked through layer upon layer of independent brokers and distributors to move the goods down to the retail level.

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