经济学人-拜登征税的问题
转子经济学人杂志,原文在最下面 6park.com拜登征税的问题 6park.com如何在不伤害投资的前提下征收资产税 6park.com政府通过对收入征税来筹集大部分资金,但乔·拜登(Joe Biden)总统一直盯着富裕,大商业和华尔街。他建议通过提高从21%的企业税率到28%来取得他计划的$ 2.7trn基础设施提供部分资金。并帮助支付更多的儿童照料和支持费用。对这些孩子得父母来说,他希望将联邦最高税率大约提高一倍,对资本利得和股息征税。对于年收入高于100万美元得美国人他将对资本收入征税与希望获得的最高工资收入得税收从37%升至39.6%。征税目前偏爱富有的投资者,虽然他们只是很小的一部分,但作为股东比例得人数却很高。 6park.com从华尔街到硅谷的许多投资者都在加入反对得行列,声称拜登先生将粉碎经济增长。其实这样得言论时太夸张了;美国可以承担更高的资本税率(请参阅``财务''部分)。但是对资本的征税可能是意料之外的经济后果。如果希望避免这些负面得损害,拜登先生应该改进他的计划的征税构架得设计。 6park.com税收储蓄和投资收入似乎不公平和低效的双重征税。今天赚钱的人今天只需支付收入和消费税;为什么会有人愿意通过延迟支付额外的酬金来获得收益?不利于储蓄和投资,并伤害长期的经济状况,这就是为什么在2010年进行的调查中,在大多数富裕国家的俱乐部中,对企业税进行了排名,被视为对经济增长最有害的四种常见税种经济模型预测拜登先生的营业税计划到2050年将使美国的经济规模减少约1%。 6park.com对此进行设置是防止避税得损害。征收资本利得税轻而易举地将工资伪装成资本收入-特别是丰厚的酬劳时间。一个问题是利益”漏洞。它让私募股权和对冲基金经理将他们的费用分类为资本收益,而不是收入。其他问题是“通过”投资中的爆炸性公司增长,例如合伙企业,占超过一半的美国业务到2011年的收入,1980年只是2011的数量的5分之一。许多资本轻,劳动密集型企业,在法律上认为咨询和医务室是通过这种方式组织的。几乎是通过投资者的收益的一半收入分类为股利和资本收获。 6park.com拜登先生对工资和资本金征税是正确的进入行将使避税变得更加困难。在效率低下和避税之间的权衡是痛苦的,但是有两个原则可以帮助您制定明智的路线图。首先,是为了实现对资本积累征税。在他们返回之前以股息和资本形式向投资者分配利润收益,确认缴纳企业税。重整资本金类似于所得税的税率,您将遭受更大的打击的投资收入超过了工资收入。加利福尼亚州的股东。 6park.com例如,面对拜登先生提议的28%的企业税税率,他的联邦资本收益率是39.6%,资本金的州税率为13.3%收益,并引入了3.8%的投资收益征费,作为奥巴马关怀的一部分。从理论上讲,他们可以保留不到三分之一拜登计划下的名义回报率,甚至更少他们的实际回报,因为其中一些税将被支付取决于通货膨胀产生的虚幻的资本收益。实际上,这是不像复利率那么简单,因为公司税是在当前的制度下有漏洞的,例如,放弃了资本收益继承资产时征税。不过,考虑到拜登先生应该从关闭漏洞中获得的收入中确保资本税的公证高于劳动税。 6park.com第二个原则是减少津贴的低效率进行投资。免除资本税收适度的“正常”回报,即,通常用低风险利率来衡量债券,减少扭曲,作为正常回报从理论上讲是最低要求私营部门的项目值得。这个主意是纳入了许多类型的美国税法投资,但直到2022年年底为止-拜登先生计划对公司征收新的最低税率会计利润会干扰最大的公司。个人投资者也应接受正常回报率的豁免-在挪威已经发生了,并由该研究所建议在英国进行财政研究。正如拜登先生提出的那样,继承不应免除资本利得税。调和的资本税和劳动税之间的真实均等通过投资激励措施,可能不会提高收益作为拜登先生当前的计划。但是这样的改革仍然会有所帮助不用花钱就可以为自己的支出付款并减少免税美国税收制度不必要地效率低下。 6park.com p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 24.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} 6park.comBiden’s taxing problem 6park.com How to tax capital without hurting investment Governments raise most of their money by taxing wages, 6park.com but President Joe Biden has his eyes fixed on the rich, big 6park.combusiness and Wall Street. 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