A simple checklist for finding a “tax friendly” retirement haven

From TopRetirements:

Let’s assume that you are a person looking for a tax-friendly state to retire. You need to start your search by realizing these key facts: your tax situation is going to be different in retirement from what it was during your working days, and because of that, some of your current tax assumptions might no longer be valid…

Since everyone’s situation is different, this checklist is meant to help organize [...]

Byron King: Time to Take Rare Earths Losses Ahead of Tax Code Changes?

Byron King: Time to Take Rare Earths Losses Ahead of Tax Code Changes?

Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report (12/18/12)

Share prices have tumbled down for many rare earth element miners, while the quality of certain companies has dramatically improved. Is now the right time for investors to strengthen their positions in the space or to turn and run? Byron King, editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor, [...]

President’s Spending Plan ‘Raises Middle Class Taxes’

A new study by Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum finds that President Barack Obama’s spending plan would raise taxes on the middle class.  ”[T]axpayers making as little as $30,000 will carry $1,500 more in taxes annually over the next 10 years,” the study finds.

 

 

The significance of this study is that it contradict Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. “If you are a family making less than [...]

How Much Will Taxes Increase If We Fall Off Cliff?

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — Hans Nichols reports on the tax implications of the “fiscal cliff” the mix of $607 billion in U.S. taxes and spending that are scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, 2012. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

 

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How the Fiscal Cliff will Deal a Blow to U.S. Defense Industry

The fiscal cliff is taking down more than U.S. taxpayers – it will tear through the U.S. defense industry.

At the end of this year, current tax policies are set to expire and new ones will go into effect at the start of 2013. What Americans can expect if the policies are not extended is a painful combo of tax increases and spending cuts that will thrust the struggling U.S. economy back into [...]

Tax Hikes in Obamacare: How Will Court Rule?

Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses

On the eve of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare, taxpayers are reminded that the President’s healthcare law is one of the largest tax increases in American history.

Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses. On Thursday, Americans for Tax Reform will do a full analysis of the tax implications of the Court’s [...]