Overstating of Assets Is Seen to Cost U.S. Billions in Taxes
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Cheating on both capital gains and estate taxes is widespread because Congress does not require proof of the cost paid for many investments, a new study shows.
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The US housing downturn may damage investment funds linked to sub-prime lending, experts say.
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The looming political battle over how to reform the tangled US income tax code could get ugly. But one option, a tax aimed at boosting savings, holds promise.
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More Americans are quitting the workforce without retiring their mortgage. Big mistake? It could prove more taxing than they ever imagined.
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Social Security and tax code changes could strain the federal budget. The president could use a rising GDP.
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Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay. It would more than cover the federal deficit for a year or the extra money President Bush wants in 2007 and 2008 for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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You may have access to more money than you think -- just be careful.
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Is this money mistake costing you millions?
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Lots of debt could mean tough times ahead.
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Changes to tax code would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment.
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A very large and valuable pile of assets now stands to change hands, possibly quite soon.
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A multibillion-dollar gap between what public companies book as expenses for their executives' stock options and what they report to the Internal Revenue Service under two sets of rules is costing the Treasury billions of dollars in taxes, a senator seeking to end the discrepancy said yesterday.
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Investors are allowed to put the money in their I.R.A.âs in to almost anything, be it condominiums or airplanes. A growing number of people are doing just that.
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Under the White House Social Security plan, workers who opt to divert some of their payroll taxes into individual accounts would ultimately get to keep only the investment returns that exceed the rate of return that the money would have accrued in the traditional system.
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A strategy executives use to turn their stockholdings into cash while delaying payment of taxes is coming under increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service.
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US markets lose ground as data shows repossessions and overdue mortgage payments in the US at record levels.
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Even bonds can lose money -- sometimes lots of it.