I can’t wait to open my new pizzeria up this fall,That will easily put me in that last category and I’m sure a new tax bracket.In the 29% bracket now(thanks NYS).
That reminds me for a new thread I should start about pizzerias.
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Abolishing the IRS would save billions of dollars.
The problem is accounts want the system to be as complex as possible so you need them to do your taxes.
I would rather give my employees a bonus than spend the money on a CPA.
Or I could spend the money on technology and be more competitive.
Spending money on CPAs is like burning money and it doesn’t help anyone except the CPA.
Hell my daughter is 6 months old and she is already on the payroll to avoid taxes.:biglaugh:
With a flat tax you have to exempt a lot of people. What would you make the flat tax? 20%? No loopholes on income? Do you include capital gains? Are you reducing the tax on bonus’?
No, that wouldn’t be a flat tax.
You are already trying to add complexity to the system.
It would a true flat tax.
We could call it the K.I.S.S tax system.
I don’t have numbers but at first glace it would seem that a flat tax system would hurt the middle class…
A fair tax (sales tax) could work…but like AWD pointed out to me in the other thread rich people would buy things off-shore…so I think to counter that on purchases like boats I think you should pay the tax when they’re registered, and have a working red flag system to catch people trying to pass off a bill of sale for a 20M boat for 1M…
That would work with cars but the people that buy boats off shore leave them off shore like at their vacation homes in the Bahamas.
They do have taxes on exotic cars but the dealers sell them as used cars with like 10 miles on them so the rich avoid the taxes.
The rich can always avoid taxes that is why a flat tax would catch them all.
Please ignore the slight difference, I can’t find the 2006 tables right now so those are 2005 numbers…notice the inflation adjustment from 70K 05 to 74K 06