dropping small biz capital gains. Sounds like a big tax loophole. You think Exxon might franchise its operation into 10,000 small business's.....
haha probably not feasible, but it wouldnt put it beyond them. Besides on a % basis, exxon isnt all that profitable.
Bottom line If You make less then 250,000 a year,Obama is better for you If You make more then 250,000 a year,Mccain is better for you
And you are uninformed Taxes on capital gains and dividends. McCain would stick with the status quo, where investors don't pay more than 15 percent on long-term capital gains and most dividends. Obama would retain the current rates for everyone except those in the two highest tax brackets. Candidates' policies favor differing income groups By Eileen Ambrose July 20, 2008 If you're voting your pocketbook, whether you choose John McCain or Barack Obama may depend on your income. McCain's tax policies favor high-income households; Barack Obama's largely benefit low-income to middle-income families. And if you're above middle income, but not too rich? Well, for you, there may not be much difference. Of course, you don't want to rearrange your finances based on the proposals so far. Not all the details are in. More policies may roll out before the election. You don't know who will win. And even if your candidate does, Congress might not give the green light to all the proposed tax cuts. Still, given what we know now, here's the outlook for taxes and a few strategies for dealing with them: Individual income tax rates. McCain would extend today's income tax rates that are scheduled to expire and go up in 2011. Obama, too, would keep the four lowest brackets, but restore the 36 percent and 39.6 percent brackets for those making more than $250,000. If Obama is elected, you might want to exercise non-qualified stock options that are taxed as regular income before you're bumped up into the 36 or 39.6 percent bracket, said Michael Kitces, director of financial planning for Pinnacle Advisory Group in Columbia, Md. Taxes on capital gains and dividends. McCain would stick with the status quo, where investors don't pay more than 15 percent on long-term capital gains and most dividends. Obama would retain the current rates for everyone except those in the two highest tax brackets. For them Obama would create a tax rate on gains and dividends ranging from 20 percent to 28 percent. He's leaning toward the lower end of the spectrum, his campaign said. If you have a family business, consider extracting profits in the form of dividends before Obama's higher dividend tax rates kick in, Kitces said. Or if your portfolio is heavily weighted in a single, appreciated stock, consider selling shares before your capital gains tax rate rises, said Bob Cassel, director of tax services at Baltimore-Washington Financial Advisors in Columbia, Md. Don't sell off stocks paying generous dividends, even if dividends will be taxed at a higher rate, Cassel added. In today's bearish market you need dividends to boost your total return, he said. Estate tax. The estate tax is set to disappear in 2010 and return the next year under old rules. In recent years the amount protected from taxes has gone up and the maximum rate has gone down. But that changes after 2010: In 2011 you could shelter up to $1 million from estate taxes, and the excess would be taxed at a rate of up to 55 percent. Both candidates would keep the estate tax but would allow you to shelter millions more from taxes. Under McCain's plan, less than a quarter of 1 percent of all estates would be taxed, compared with less than one-half of 1 percent under Obama, said Clint Stretch, managing principal for tax policy with Deloitte Tax LLP. Alternative minimum tax. Neither candidate would do away with the alternative minimum tax, although they want to rein it in. You're supposed to figure your taxes under the AMT and regular income tax and pay whichever is higher. The AMT was created decades ago to snag wealthy people who escaped taxes, but it ensnarls a growing number of middle-income and upper-middle-income families because the tax wasn't adjusted for inflation. To protect these families, Congress periodically passes an AMT "patch" that raises the amount of income exempted from the AMT. Obama wants to continue indexing the AMT patch for inflation. McCain would follow the same approach for five years, and then more aggressively raise the exemption until it reaches $143,000. But McCain's proposal to double the exemption for dependents to $7,000 could cause more people to be hit with AMT, said Roberton Williams with the Tax Policy Center. "It lowers your regular tax but, because the AMT doesn't allow personal exemptions, it doesn't lower your AMT liability," he said. New tax breaks. Obama would create a few tax breaks, such as a $500 credit that could help workers offset payroll taxes for Social Security and a mortgage interest credit for millions of homeowners who don't file itemized tax returns. He also would eliminate income taxes for seniors with incomes under $50,000. Some tax policy experts question the need for this, especially as waves of Baby Boomers will start turning 65 in a couple of years. "The case has not been made that retirees are worse off than working people as a class," said Deloitte's Stretch. McCain wants to make it harder to raise taxes. He would require that any tax increase be approved by a three-fifths majority in Congress. While both candidates would cut taxes, McCain's cuts reduce revenue significantly more than Obama's, reports the Tax Policy Center. Given the rising deficits, don't start counting your tax savings just yet. "The odds are very low that either candidate will get all of what he is calling for on the campaign trail," Williams said. http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...10.story?page=2
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=411750 Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next ten years, according to a newly updated analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Compared to current law, TPC estimates the Obama plan would cut taxes by $2.9 trillion from 2009-2018. McCain would reduce taxes by nearly $4.2 trillion. Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers. In contrast, McCain would cut taxes across the board and give the biggest cuts to the highest-income households.
Yes, Most of Obama's plan is that anyone making more then 2.7 Million will pay $750,000 more in taxes. It is that revenue that gets redistributed to the lower income people. Yea...right!....If I make $2.7m this year, you can bet I will not make $2.7 next year if obama is Prez. In no way will I pay 750K more by choice. If i am making 2.7M you can bet i have complete control of how I get paid will alter my income as needed. This is why when taxes go up revenue goes down and vise versa. Why does thre public get fooled