Woody wrote:

The Savior wrote:Sure wonder what those 2006 - 2010 returns look like as thats when his core business sector got annihilated. Perhaps that's what got him linked to Russia - financial desperation.

That's what I've read. Fewer and fewer US lenders would give him money so he went outside the country. The question is how much he is in debt to Russian firms, and how closely those firms are or aren't tied to their administration. For all we know Putin indirectly owns a bank that he owes hundreds of millions to

Bucky wrote: so VIOLA,

stevemc wrote:

Bucky wrote: so VIOLA,

love this so much

Bucky wrote:I think the AMT is much less to do with salary than with deductions. I got hit a couple years ago (if you search you will see me breathing fire in the tax threat). It's something like "well, you've got all these lawful deductions, yeah, but we still don't think you're paying enough, so VIOLA, you have to pay the AMT instead".

thephan wrote:

Bucky wrote:I think the AMT is much less to do with salary than with deductions. I got hit a couple years ago (if you search you will see me breathing fire in the tax threat). It's something like "well, you've got all these lawful deductions, yeah, but we still don't think you're paying enough, so VIOLA, you have to pay the AMT instead".

You sir, are correct. Aside from the If you make more then X, then you pay a % of (taxable income -X), there is also a host of deductions that implode. The most notable/painful if stuff to do with kids. I mean why have kids if you cannot write them off (mostly around deductions for child care to be specific).

Full disclosure, I do not mind paying taxes if I get commiserate services, but the tax code is a maze and a half if you try to look at it rationally. Simplification would help my sanity. Just make AMT part of the charted pain, and go forward, because it always feels like a "gottcha". Here is your taxes owed, now bend over for the AMT. I want to plan it so I am at +/-$500, but I am never getting there with the AMT zinger, so my planning is shoot for it with deductions and put a pile of money off to the side to see how close you guess to the AMT kicker.

CalvinBall wrote:Trump in Michigan today to announce roll backs on fuel efficiency regulations. Who does that help? People really pining for the days where your truck would get 8 miles to the gallon?

This week, the governor signed proclamations setting four execution dates for the eight inmates between April 17 and 27. Two men would be put to death on each of the four dates. If Arkansas follows that timetable, it will be at a rate unmatched by any state since the United States resumed the death penalty in 1977, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit research group that opposes capital punishment.

The state’s supply of midazolam runs out on April 30,” said John Williams, an assistant federal public defender based in Little Rock. “And so the schedule is quite obviously dictated by that, and we think it is inhumane that the state would schedule executions so as to get rid of a drug supply that the evidence shows is cruel and unusual.”

CalvinBall wrote:Trump in Michigan today to announce roll backs on fuel efficiency regulations. Who does that help? People really pining for the days where your truck would get 8 miles to the gallon?

pacino wrote:i would not be for making everyone pay federal income tax

Phred wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Trump in Michigan today to announce roll backs on fuel efficiency regulations. Who does that help? People really pining for the days where your truck would get 8 miles to the gallon?

Gas companies.

CalvinBall wrote:

Phred wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Trump in Michigan today to announce roll backs on fuel efficiency regulations. Who does that help? People really pining for the days where your truck would get 8 miles to the gallon?

Gas companies.

I guess, but is a consumer going to be like hell yeah give me that non-full efficient car! Maybe there is a sizable cost difference, but at this point technology is pretty far along, no?