Note again that this is post tax and post benefit.
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Individuals may qualify for a nice premium tax credit on one hand, but lose a big part of that tax credit in the form of paying for health insurance with post tax dollars.
In the UK dividends are paid out of post tax profit, as in the US. However, that tax that had been paid on the corporate profits becomes, to the dividend recipient, a tax credit.
For even in the post-tax and post-benefit numbers the US is still an outlier in the statistical methods used.
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Individuals buy health care at a pre-tax income whereas we pay for everything post-tax income.
As a result, some Spanish regions where pre-tax income per head is lower than in Catalonia end up with higher post-tax income.
The cap is set at the equivalent to the average post-tax salary of a working household.
But when a corporation distributes part of its post-tax profits to shareholders, this is a transfer.
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Over the next few days, I will randomly post 10 tax trivia questions on the blog.
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Prices at the pump are currently at their lowest post-tax level since the early 1960s.
For people do indeed look at post-tax, risk adjusted returns, not pre-tax, as we can quite easily prove.
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The net proceeds post-tax are expected to be 5.3% lower than previously planned.
Yet Coldwell Banker's Gillespie says that focusing only on these statistics is misleading, and that observers shouldn't be surprised by the post-tax-credit swoon.
However, investors could make more informed fund choices if they knew whether managers are paid for short- or long-term performance and pre- or post-tax results.
In America, too, real post-tax interest rates are not historically low, in part because mortgage-interest tax relief is worth less at lower rates of inflation.
In Britain home-equity withdrawals added the equivalent of 3% of post-tax income to households in the fourth quarter of 2007 but subtracted 3% a year later.
Out of that post-tax profit the company then retains some earnings to further invest in the business and then pays the rest to the shareholders as dividends.
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Interestingly, when Mr Bartels looks at the real post-tax income growth of the poor (defined as those at the 20th percentile of earnings), the picture looks rather different.
Commerzbank delivered an annualised post-tax return on equity of 12.1% in the first nine months of this year, Eurohypo produced 8.8% and is heading for 10% by the end of the year.
This counter-intuitive result may reflect the strong cultural and religious pressure to give, and the fact that the Biblical tithe, against which many people measure their donations, says nothing of pre- or post-tax dollars.
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In other words, high earners will either respond to lower taxes by doing more productive work, by putting less effort into avoiding taxes or by putting more effort into negotiating for higher pay, as the post-tax rewards for all three are now higher.
Post-tax prices should be set at a level that would strike a balance between damping down use on the one hand, and discouraging a black market and the desperate acts of theft and prostitution to which addicts now resort to feed their habits.
While those things may touch on tax, the focus on this post is solely tax related.
Additionally, most charitable organizations will post evidence of tax-exempt status on their web site.
See my earlier post, Tax Deadlines For 2010 Deaths?
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And if you're going to save money by taking services online, that will mean ending some "offline" services - so prepare for the backlash when taxpayers are told they can no longer file their returns via the post, or get a road tax disc at the Post Office.
Having embarked on my tax lawyer career in 1979, it was my first major post-law school tax bill.
The primacy of economic growth in generating tax revenue cannot be overstated: the fastest post-war increases in tax revenue growth occurred in 1997-2000 and 2004-2007, when revenues went up by nearly 50% in each instance.
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This post concerns potential estate tax saving from establishing a separate revocable trust for each spouse and dividing the marital estate between the two trusts.
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