Every year I trek down to a nondescript office building near Wall Street with a bag full of receipts and a belly full of anxiety.
When it’s tax time, I always hope for the best but…. I also had an accountant who I trusted to keep me on the up and up. He was recommended years earlier by the Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, who wanted to avoid the Al Capone problem.
Аби беше доволно разбиен поради неговите политички активности и не сакаше повеќе затворска казна за неплаќање даноци. Така, тој мораше да биде како пронесен снег за да издржи каква било ревизија. И тој беше. Тој беше револуционер кој го држеше носот и му плати на човекот.
Back in the day, the government used IRS investigations to threaten political activists and intimidate activists that paid their taxes as opposed to those who became tax resisters to refuse to pay for wars.
Those war tax resisters seemed to always get special attention from the IRS enforcement division that wanted to make an example of a few often religious people challenging the people fronting for a “Defense” budget that never stopped growing, and has had little to do with real defense.
I admire their bravery and defiance but haven’t had the guts to join them.
In some countries, tax defiance is growing against new taxes imposed in the aftermath of repugnant cutbacks in the name of austerity.
„Њујорк тајмс“ известува од Ирска дека во тек е масовен бојкот на новиот данок на имот: „Демонстрантите против мерките за штедење тврдат победа откако владата призна дека околу 50 отсто од ИрскаПроценетите 1.6 милиони сопственици на куќи не платија нов, паушален данок на имот од 133 долари до крајните рокови на 31 март.
Today, especially thanks to Occupy Wall Street, we know how economic inequality had grown while the people with the most money in society work the hardest to not pay their fair share. They have been resisting for years, “legally” they claim.
Those armed with lobbyists and pricey tax firms have never seen a deduction they don’t like or a sleazy maneuver they wouldn’t try.
As Chuck Collins writes in his new book 99-1: “In 2010, 25 of the 100 largest U.S. companies paid their CEO more than they paid in U.S. taxes. This is largely because corporations in the global 1 percent use off shore tax havens to dodge their U.S. taxes.”
„Експертите“ кои ги погледнаа даноците што ги плаќаме, гледаат настрана со одвратност. Ова е од блогот на Езра Клајн во Вашингтон пост:
"Брус Бартлет Кевин Драм point to a striking table in the 2012 Economic Report of the President PDF showing that there’s a huge variation in what people of similar income levels actually pay in federal taxes:
Those in the middle-income quintile, for instance, can pay anywhere between 1.7 percent and 23.5 percent of their income in federal taxes. About a quarter of the wealthiest Americans, meanwhile, have a lower average tax rate (17.4 percent) than many of those in making far less money.
What explains the wild variation? Part of it is that some Americans — Mitt Romney is the most famous example — get a sizeable chunk of their income from capital gains, се оданочуваат со пониска стапка отколку платите. Исто така, постојат различни одбитоци и кредити во даночниот код што само одредени луѓе можат или ги користат.
Брус Бартлет Коментари that the tax code has become misaligned with basic fairness principles: “We can see, then, that the tax system in the United States violates the fundamental principles of income taxation.”
Не е изненадување овде, бидејќи гледавме како републиканците им ги намалуваат даноците на најбогатите Американци.
„Американците за финансиска реформа“ се обидува да го претвори даночното прашање во политичка контроверзност без голема помош од нашите млаки и соучеснички медиуми, пишувајќи:
“With tax Day just around the corner, and so many Americans struggling to make ends meet, we can’t help but notice that Wall Street is still not paying their fair share.
Yesterday, we sent out a press release announcing that prominent bankers now supported a financial speculation tax. Of course, that was an April fools joke. They don’t. And they won’t. Which is why it’s so important for all of us to take action.
Овој април, испратете порака до претседателот Обама, Време е да се оданочи Волстрит.
They add: “A small tax on financial transactions has the potential to raise significant revenue and simultaneously limit reckless short-term speculation that can threaten financial stability. We are writing to ask you to support such a tax for the United States. We are also asking that you put an end any Treasury Department opposition to the implementation of the tax in Europe. Many European countries are moving ahead with this idea, and so should the United States.”
The Democrats are legitimately attacking Republican Paul Ryan’s “budget” which will insure more tax breaks for the rich while at the same time backing a law that undercuts financial regulation, as former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains:
“And then there's the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" or "JOBS" Act, which President Obama is expected to sign into law Thursday. It allows so-called "crowd funding" by which people whose net worth is less than $100,000 can gamble away (invest) up to 5 percent of their annual incomes in any get- rich-quick scam (start-up) that any huckster (entrepreneur) may sell them.
Forget the usual investor disclosures or other protections. In the interest of "streamlining," Congress has streamlined the way to fraud. Although start-ups will have to market themselves through third-party portals approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, this is like limiting Bernie Madoff to making pitches over the radio. The SEC can barely keep track of Wall Street let alone thousands of Internet portals. Small wonder SEC Chair Mary Schapiro has been one of the most outspoken critics of the bill.
The bill was sold to Congress as a way to promote jobs (note the acronym) on the supposition that small start-ups create huge numbers of them. Wrong. That assumption comes from research by the Kauffman Foundation, which counted as a "start-up job" every laid-off worker who morphed into an independent contractor.”
Ова може да биде година за OWS да размисли за окупирање на IRS, или барем да најде драматичен начин да го оспори недостатокот на правичност во нашите даночни кодови, како и „приоритетите“ што моментално ги финансираат даночните пари, вклучувајќи војни и субвенции за оние што не не им требаат
You don’t have to be, or have, an accountant to know the score.
Death and taxes will always be with us but this current tax regime is so skewed and disgusting that it demands to be junked and challenged.
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