Earned Income Tax Credit

The topic of tax policy includes many widespread views and ideas. A relevant question is whether high-income earners should be required to pay a larger percentage of their income in federal taxes than low-income earners. The position I take is that everyone should pay a flat tax rate and can, if desired, choose to pay a larger percentage in federal income tax. Taxes are set so that the government can invest the money into services that everyone has the same access to. As a strong believer in…

allowed to deduct itemized deductions from adjusted gross income if their itemized deductions exceed their standard and personal deductions. Itemized deductions are specific deductions that can be taken by a tax payer such as mortgage interest, medical expenditures, charitable contributions, gifts, and many other items. However, some events, such as the death of a relative who leaves an estate behind, can trigger taxation. With current tax law, if someone dies and leaves an estate behind, a…

S. citizen. “People who make $1 million a year had an average tax rate of 20.4%,” (Frank, The Millionaires Who Pay the Highest Tax Rate, CNBC). This shows that millionaires work diligently at their job and earn more because if it. They shouldn’t have to pay more because of that. In addition, “Among Americans with income between $1 million and $1.5 million, the average tax on adjusted gross income was 28.3%, and the average income tax paid was $341,275,” (Campbell, How Much Do Rich Americans Pay…

In the article General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010, states that Jeffery Immelt (CEO of General Electric (GE)) wants Obama to create more jobs for the United States. This is ironic because “more than half of GE’s workforce is now outside the United States”. I don’t believe that Jeffery has a say in what Obama does concerning with creating new jobs for America because as a CEO of a company, shouldn’t he be trying to create more jobs in America? Rather than laying off 21,000 workers and…

first article essentially argued that Trump tax cut benefited no one and had very little public support. It stated that the GOP proposed tax reform would raise taxes on most individuals including the middle class, add 13 million Americans to the ranks of uninsured all to pay for corporate tax cuts. After making these points, the article shifted gears into discussing how even CEO’s don’t support the idea. This is because they understand that changing tax rates is not that important a factor in…

Trump’s five point tax plan has some good and bad points. I agree that there shouldn 't be a death tax and it should be repealed. A death tax (also known as estate tax) is a 40% tax on all of a person 's wealth above $5.32 million once they die. The reason why I believe the death tax should be repealed is because death taxes kill small businesses when the owner dies and their heirs often have to sell the business after being forced to pay 40% of what the business is worth to the government…

One reason is that a corporation maintains a capital stock account, additional paid-in capital accounts, and a retained earnings account. “Net income or loss becomes part of retained earnings, and dividends are always paid equally to all shareholders of a particular class of stock” (Bline, Fischer, & Skekel, 2004, Chapter 7). Corporations are also able to reacquire some of its own equity interest in the form of treasury stock. Other advantages of establishing a subsidiary as a corporation are…

Tax is a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on worker’s income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions (Oxford Dictionary). The federal income Tax system is now at a center of public debate. To illustrate, The United States is currently practicing progressive tax system, which means a person who earns higher income pays higher tax rate. Whereas another income tax system is call flat tax, which is a tax system with a…

added more than $1 trillion to income inequality (Belotti and Farley). One of the primary inequality factors under monetary policy has allowed programs such as quantitative easing to artificially injected money into the economy causing the equity markets to boom and interest gained from bank accounts to tumble. The prices of stocks, floating on this giant bubble, has exasperate the inequality problem. Another factor under fiscal policy has allowed the rich receive many tax breaks and loopholes…

heydays. The reason why America has gotten to this dreadful situation may lie in the path that its government chose to develop. For instance, the truly needy do not have enough support from the Social Safety Net programs to get out of poverty: the tax systems should be progressive instead of regressive; wages and benefits are not equally allocated among the workers and the bosses, and there has been no attention to the maintenance and improvement of infrastructure for a very long time.…