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    Macroeconomics Research Project: Income Inequality Income Inequality means the uneven income is distributed among individuals in a company, groups in a population, or countries in the world. “One-fourth of American employees make less than $10 per hour, which is the income that below the Federal poverty level” (Amadeo). Those are the people like cashier, waiters, or fast food clerks. There is a huge gap between rich people and poor people. The rich people are getting richer while the poor people

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    Tax Consequences of Economic Failures June 13, 2007 is the day that Richard C. Cook claims in his article, “It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy Has Begun.” In the past couple of years, months, and weeks, the United States economy and stock market showed significant failures and inefficiencies to the world. Perhaps the greatest evidence signaling the recent economic meltdown is the subprime mortgage problems that started a little over a year ago. The burst of the U.S. housing market

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    expenditures, the federal government needed to tax the people. Now, tax policy is a major motivator of the actions of individuals, and the government has used the tax code to alter economy and societal behavior. Policy makers have used the tax code to alter the distribution of income and alter behavior when working, investing, saving, and consuming resources (Steuerle; Pg. 2). A few of the policies deal with tax preferences, enactments, vouchers, and tax cuts. Tax preferences have had a significant impact

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    income stream each year, in exchange for a payment of capital. They are governed by the Superannuation Industry Supervision (SIS) Act as they are the commutation / drawdown phase of Superannuation. A pension is the most popular way to turn your superannuation money into a regular income stream for your retirement. • Income received from a pension can be made up of capital as well as earnings. • Investment earnings including any capital gains are tax free. This will not be the case for ‘Transition-to-retirement

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    Trump's Tax Policy

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    defined, Trump’s tax policy will clearly shift to a more conservative stance. However, there are questions to be asked: Will Trump follow the paths of Reagan and Bush in his attempt to reduce taxes? Will

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    In the recent years this strategy of tax planning has gained a special importance due to the pertaining global scenario. Tax planning reduces eventual tax liabilities, maximise the amount of funds and help the companies meet their financial objectives. Tax planning strategies defer the current year taxes to a future year, thereby freeing up cash for other investments. A Brief Profile On VRL Logistics

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    theorize the issue of capital structure. In their seminal paper, ‘The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment, American Economic Review, (June 2011), they stated their capital structure irrelevance proposition that capital structure has no predictable material effect on corporate market values in a perfect capital market. Modigliani-Miller provides the basis for modern thinking on capital structure and was for the first time introduces the concept of capital structure. Their

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    Accounting for Capital Projects and Debt Service ------------------------------------------------- Questions for Review and Discussion 1. Budgets, and hence budget comparisons, are not as essential for capital projects and debt service funds because they are often on a project, rather than an annual, basis and spending is typically authorized on that basis. 2. When bonds are issued for more than their par value, the premium can be interpreted as an adjustment of the interest

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    to go into business, someday. Some ways of going into business are through sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation and limited liability companies. This paper will discuss the different formation of a business and advantages/disadvantages, the tax and liability issue of each and the form of business I would choose if I started my own business. There are typically four way to form a business. Sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation (C/SCorp) and limited liability companies are the traditional

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    reallocate your investments. For your non-employer retirement plan, we recommend employing a discount brokerage such as TD Ameritrade/E-Trade account. Tax Planning Your adjusted gross income (AGI) is 260,127. Your future salaries (which we have assumed to grow at just 2% per year) may increase significantly. Therefore, you may be subject to many tax constraints in the future. The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 made a number of changes that impact individuals. Itemized deduction limits and

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