Tag: tax

It seems that California governor Jerry Brown is leaving no stone unturned in his search for new revenue to plug the state's enormous budget deficit.  But he might have …

First, President Obama defended the idea of a government-imposed health care mandate by "absolutely rejecting" the notion that mandated health insurance premiums were a tax. Then Obama Administration lawyers …

Nearly half of US states, including most of the most populous states, have combined state/federal corporate tax rates higher than even Japan (the country with the overall highest national …

Nearly 20,000 heads of state, environmental activists, reporters, Al Gore, and other assorted nitwits gathered in Bali, Indonesia to plan for Life After Kyoto, because the Kyoto Protocol expires …

One of the Democratic Congress' consistent themes has been their desire to "roll back" tax cuts "for the wealthy." The simplest way for them to accomplish this goal is …

The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was designed to stop high-income earners from paying no income taxes but, because it was never indexed to inflation, it affects more and more …

Democrats are working on a huge expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program that covers children of families with too much income to qualify for Medicaid. The only …

The latest brilliant idea to raise taxes "on the rich" targets so-called "private equity partnerships," including hedge funds, and aims to take away their ability for profits to be …

The world is experiencing one of the greatest economic booms in history (as can be measured), and one of the factors is falling tax rates in major economies, writes …