Posted on 10/16/2012 12:39:14 PM PDT by 92nina
The Obama-Biden tax plan calls for a hike in the small business tax rate from 35 percent today to over 40 percent next year. President Obama and his supporters will often argue that only three percent of small business owners will be affected by his tax rate hike. While this is true, it masks the fact that this is a tax increase on one million successful small businesses (i.e. three percent of the 30 million small business tax returns filed annually).
The Obama-Biden plan will raise taxes on a majority of small business profits and hit those companies which employ a majority of Americans who work for small businesses. Heres how:
Unlike corporations, small businesses usually dont pay their own taxes. Rather, business profits flow through to the business owner. The business owner pays taxes on her small business by adding the profits to her income tax form. Therefore, personal income taxes are the same thing as small business taxes.
The Obama-Biden plan to raise the top two marginal income tax rates (from 33 and 35 percent today to 36 and 39.6 percent, respectively) is a hike in Americas small business tax rate. This does not include Obamacares 3.8 percent small business surtax.
According to the IRS, most small business profits face taxation in households making more than $200,000 per year. The IRS keeps track of two types of small business income: sole proprietors, and pass-through entities like partnerships and S-corporations.
A majority of small business profits will face a tax rate hike under the Obama-Biden plan. There are 30 million tax returns reporting small business income. On net (profits reduced by losses), these owners report business profits of $590 billion. A large chunk of this net profit--$477 billionfaced taxation in households making more than $200,000 per year.
Sole proprietors: There are 22 million tax returns reporting sole proprietor income. On net (profits reduced by losses), these owners report business profits of $245 billion. A large chunk of this net profit--$80 billionface taxation in households making more than $200,000 per year. 37 percent of sole proprietor profits will face a tax rate hike under the Obama-Biden plan.
S-corporations and partnerships: There are 8 million partners and S-corporation shareholders. On net (profits reduced by losses), these owners reported business profits of $345 billion. Virtually all of this profit faced taxation in households making more than $200,000 per year. Aggregate pass-through entity profits will almost entirely fall in households making more than $200,000 per year. These are real small businesses. For example, there are 250,000 doctor and dentist offices organized as S-corporations or partnerships. They employ millions of workers making less than $250,000 per year. These jobs are endangered by the Obama-Biden tax rate hike.
The Obama-Biden tax hike plan will kill small business jobs. Obama and Biden claim they are raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires but are actually targeting successful small companies. A new study by Ernst and Young projects that this tax rate hike will kill 710,000 small business jobs.
Read more: http://atr.org/obama-biden-plan-raises-taxes-one-a7252#ixzz29UaaiBv6
There is a huge difference between reporting $200,000+ in business income from your small business and getting a $200,000 salary. However, Obama and his Marxists have never run so much as a hotdog stand and simply want to denigrate the “rich” and stir up class warfare. I see this as little different than Lenin ordering the destruction of the kulaks, wealthy peasants who had prospered.
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