This means that some upper-income taxpayers will pay a 23.8% tax rate on long-term capital gains starting in 2013.
And uncertainty around Greece and their ability to pay their debts runs on -- in the capital markets -- on the debt that many of these southern European countries have been facing, as well as Ireland and Portugal.
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The Ryan-Sununu approach would turn a deadweight, pay-as-you-go liability system into an enormous generator of capital that would significantly increase economic growth in the years ahead--and give participants far more in retirement payment and leave them a real nest egg of capital.
Alas this happy ploy is more or less confined to countries such as Sweden, where ministers resign for forgetting to pay television-licence fees, and members of parliament perch in tiny, state-owned bedsits while working in the capital: 72% of Danes and 66% of Swedes duly told a 2010 Eurobarometer poll they trusted national parliaments.
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Oil company YPF, Argentina's largest company, has led the way in incentive-based compensation, tying pay to return on capital.
"The real issue is that the Treasury should agree to our request for the Scottish Government to be able to pay for such a large, once-in-a-generation capital project over a longer period of time beyond the construction period, rather than within a few short years, " said a Scottish Government spokesman.
Even if it has these indirect pay-offs, foreign capital can also make mischief in countries that are not ready for it.
That way, when you finally cash them in, you'll pay relatively low long-term capital gains taxes on your profits, instead of ordinary income taxes.
Capital expenditure may have a pay-off in the long run but, given the ever-shortening career span of the average chief executive, few may be willing to take a chance that they will be around for the long term.
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Banks, for their part, view the fees charged for capital-raising in part as a pay-off for the effort and expense put into their corporate-broking work.
And cash-strapped countries, such as France, are reluctant to pay in a lot of capital to the ESM quickly.
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Most trusts (non-grantor trusts) pay tax on capital gains and accumulated income that stays in the trust, while the beneficiaries pay tax on income that is distributed to them.
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In the late 1990s there was no sign that technology or telecoms start-ups were lacking in capital, even though they were unlikely to pay dividends for years.
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Then, beginning in 2013, high-income folks will pay an additional 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income, including capital gains, bringing the federal capital gains tax bite up to 23.8%.
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