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[9] [58] FairTax supporters argue that replacing the regressive payroll tax (a 15.3% total tax not included in the Tax Panel study; [9] payroll taxes include a 12.4% Social Security tax on wages up to $97,500 and a 2.9% Medicare tax, a 15.3% total tax that is often split between employee and employer) greatly changes the tax distribution, and ...
The Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25/S. 122) is a bill in the United States Congress for changing tax laws to replace the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and all federal income taxes (including Alternative Minimum Tax), payroll taxes (including Social Security and Medicare taxes), corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, gift taxes, and estate taxes with a national retail sales tax, to be levied once at the ...
The Fair Tax Act and was formally introduced on Jan. 10 by Rep. Buddy Carter, R-GA, but has little chance of becoming law anytime soon. Democrats revel in the GOP's 'doozy' of an idea for a ...
Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of administrative arguments asserting that the assessment and collection of the federal income tax violates regulations enacted by responsible agencies –primarily the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)– tasked with carrying out the statutes enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by the President.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made huge permanent cuts to corporate and business taxes while making temporary cuts to individual taxes to limit the bill’s expansionary effects on the ...
The prosecution's main theory of "another crime" relied on Section 17-152 of the New York Election Law. That obscure , little-used provision makes conspiring to promote a candidate's election "by ...
In criminal cases, the law distinguishes between beliefs about constitutionality of the tax law from other beliefs about the tax law: A defendant's good-faith belief that he is not required to file a tax return is a valid defense to the element of willfulness, and the belief need not be reasonable if actually held in good faith.
Tax results depend on definitions of legal terms which are usually vague. For example, vagueness of the distinction between "business expenses" and "personal expenses" is of much concern for taxpayers and tax authorities. More generally, any term of tax law has a vague penumbra, and is a potential source of tax avoidance. [23]