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Wisconsin Democrat’s Bike Business Hasn’t Paid State Income Taxes For Three Decades
Washington Free Beacon ^ | Many 9, 2014 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 05/09/2014 1:52:41 PM PDT by Kaslin

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more than two-thirds of the 25 of the largest businesses in Wisconsin

Also interesting that papers don't pay editors to proof read their stories anymore.

41 posted on 05/09/2014 2:21:55 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Humvee

I think you’re right. You can’t tell jack from this poorly written and researched story.


42 posted on 05/09/2014 2:22:59 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Kaslin

This article is BS, and promotes ignorance of the law. TREK is doing nothing different than tens of thousands of S-corporations owned by Conservatives have done for years, including mine.

Wise up, people.


43 posted on 05/09/2014 2:23:06 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: William Tell

Agree also.


44 posted on 05/09/2014 2:23:34 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Kaslin

I have no problem with closely held businesses avoiding the double taxation on corporate profits and reducing the tax burden by using the “s” election, but when it’s a liberal, who advocates higher taxes on everyone else, then it’s hypocrisy.


45 posted on 05/09/2014 2:23:55 PM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"...the 70’s, not nearly as much traffic..."

There's my experience prior to my kid's interest.

46 posted on 05/09/2014 2:25:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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47 posted on 05/09/2014 2:26:22 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Kaslin

Call in Feudal Lord Reids’s Raiders!


48 posted on 05/09/2014 2:27:36 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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What does upset me is all the tax payer gifts they are getting.

And if they're getting them legally then shouldn't a prudent business take advantage of those too?

49 posted on 05/09/2014 2:28:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DManA

The company doesn’t pay but the owners do. What’s the big deal?


This is silly. The corporation retains no profits to pay taxes on. it distributes them to the owners, who pay all the taxes on the profits every year.

They avoid double taxation like most family businesses do.

I’d be more interested if they had schemes to pay owner/managers a salary that was below the Social Security threshold, so that they avoided SS taxes by taking distributions of profits instead of salary. Everybody does that, too, but it looks bad if the numbers aren’t reasonable.


50 posted on 05/09/2014 2:28:53 PM PDT by Freeping Since 2001
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I am upset with the giving, not the getting.


51 posted on 05/09/2014 2:31:54 PM PDT by DManA
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Sounds to me like they have done nothing wrong. It looks like Fox 6 and the Republicans are searching for something, anything in order to have a scandal or maybe a corruption issue. Shame on them.

As for the “overpriced” Trek bike. No one is forced to buy them.

Non story.


52 posted on 05/09/2014 2:32:23 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan every day)
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You are correct in that...however..the SubS statute ( at the federal level was designed to help NEW businesses..in that losses could be deducted against other current income..to help the owners of the start-up..with the expectation that in a few years it would change to regular corporate status. A new business may well have losses for several years...as a regular corp they can’t don anything with them except carry them forward...they are in that sense worthless to the new venture..


53 posted on 05/09/2014 2:32:31 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: musicman

That’s a funny cartoon.


54 posted on 05/09/2014 2:32:54 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Kaslin

This cannot be true. Wealthy corporations are always rich white republicans.


55 posted on 05/09/2014 2:37:34 PM PDT by boycott
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Please don’t tell me you’re looking for intellectual honesty here on FR. Imagine the hue and cry from the same FReepers if the legislature tried to CLOSE the “loophole”.


56 posted on 05/09/2014 2:39:32 PM PDT by Wolfie
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:: According to the records, Trek files under “Subchapter S” of the tax code, which enables the company to avoid corporate taxes and pay as individuals at a lower rate. ::

I hope Walker doesn’t make big deal out of this; it is a non-starter. Subchapter S businesses are owned by Dhimmicrats and Pubbies alike and are specifically chartered as “S-Corp” for tax reasons.


57 posted on 05/09/2014 2:41:45 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: goodnesswins

Make her defend it in the court of public opinion, right or wrong!!


58 posted on 05/09/2014 2:42:16 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: Kaslin

As I recall, we learned here that General Electric paid no federal income tax, for several years.

If there is no income, there is no tax.

Everybody needs at least one corporation


59 posted on 05/09/2014 2:42:49 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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(Thanks!)


60 posted on 05/09/2014 2:43:45 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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