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Steve Mnuchin: Treasury will crack down on carried-interest loophole......
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/14/2018 | by Joseph Lawler |

Posted on 02/14/2018 9:02:11 AM PST by caww

The Treasury Department and IRS will seek to prevent hedge funds from exploiting the new tax law to cut their taxes through carried interest, Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday in congressional testimony.

Mnuchin was responding to the news reported earlier in the morning by Bloomberg that hedge funds are setting up Delaware LLCs in large numbers to try to avoid the law's limitation on carried interest.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mnuchin; treasury; trumpcabinet; trumptaxcuts

1 posted on 02/14/2018 9:02:11 AM PST by caww
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Good, anything to minimize the Dims from using this as a phony “us against them,” “rich plundering the poor” garbage talking points they like to use.


2 posted on 02/14/2018 9:09:41 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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...”Good, anything to minimize the Dims from using this as a phony “us against them,” “rich plundering the poor” garbage talking points they like to use.”......

It’s going to take awhile this is a great start....on the table is always good.


3 posted on 02/14/2018 9:37:09 AM PST by caww
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Put a 1/2 of 1% tax on all stock trades. Then go the Huey Long route with personal income and make the first $10 million of income anyone makes from whatever source, tax free.

JMHo

4 posted on 02/14/2018 10:08:35 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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See how fast they pull the plug on all of those high speed trading computers that confound the market and rip off average Investors.


5 posted on 02/14/2018 10:32:03 AM PST by Wolfie
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He, He, yeah, two birds with one stone and tax relief for the minions who actually make the country work, too.


6 posted on 02/14/2018 10:41:51 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Amen. The stock market should be about investing in sound companies with good value, not skimming nano-pennies off of high speed trading, often scamming the system because your server gets the trading data before everyone else.
7 posted on 02/14/2018 10:57:21 AM PST by Wolfie
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