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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMom, Pop -- you're the losers in this tax plan
As a CPA, I could be celebrating these loopholes. After all, I would be able to save my clients a lot on taxes and could be invited to fly along to, say, the Cayman Islands to set up an offshore account under the new regulations. Four days at the beach with a fully-stocked hotel minibar and all the HBO and Showtime programs I can watch -- all fully deductible for me and my client. Sounds nice, right?
Wrong. As someone who has served small businesses for more than 30 years, and co-chair of an organization called Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform, I am not cheering. Small business owners aren't cheering the bill either.
Quite the opposite. This bill, despite the glossy, small business-friendly language being used to sell it, would actually do more to widen the tax advantage gap between large businesses and small ones than our present -- and already tilted tax code -- does. This bill does just that, thanks to the change from a worldwide tax system, which requires US companies to pay Uncle Sam taxes on all their profits, regardless of where the income is earned, to something called a territorial one, under which companies don't owe taxes to their own governments on income they make offshore.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/opinions/gop-tax-plan-territorial-small-business-zimmerman-opinion/index.html
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)This bill is one big upward flooding of money from the poor and middle to the rich. This will end up destroying more of the middle class in order for the rich to take more.
The republican party is now working to transform this country into a third world one.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)If they aren't incorporated into at least an LLC, they can't deduct ANY business expense. This includes actors and musicians who pay a large portion of their income to agents, managers, publicists, etc. Of course wealthy artists can afford to incorporate, but most artists are not wealthy. Setting up an LLC in CA, for example, costs several thousand dollars.
spanone
(135,844 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Of course, you could be a 1099 and still be an LLC, but the deductions allowed for a "corporation" are different than those for a unincorporated sole proprieter. A business can deduct hundreds of cases of copy paper but a school teacher cannot deduct the 10 cases that she might have to pay for out of her own pocket.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)waiting to see how withdrawals from IRA's and 401's are going to be treated. There was to be new rules as to amounts allowed to be put into accounts and changes in mandatory withdrawals.
Noticed Hatch stuck the Corker bribe addendum in this Bill Saturday. And last night the Author admitted there is now a 600 billion additional debt added as a result,making it a 2 billion dollar hit to the National Debt.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Dyslexia hit again.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)My skimpy knowledge is if it's not a Roth IRA, you have to withdraw money from your IRA at age 70.5. I wonder why.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)idea of Senator Mel Roth who came up with the 401k and later the IRA to protect the Exc's at Dupont and Dow Chemical as well as Kodak from paying Federal Taxes. Believe a Actuarial table was used and it came from some Insurance company that marketed Annuities. Do remember IDS Services used a similiar Table in their Sales and Marketing Program. Investors-Diversified Services based in Mpls.