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Tax hikes ahead? Be prepared (Taxes in 2013 as Bush tax cuts expire)
Fidelity Investments ^ | Sept 7. 2012 | Fidelity

Posted on 09/07/2012 10:56:05 AM PDT by Innovative

The tax cuts enacted by Congress in 2001 and 2003 - often referred to as the Bush tax cuts - provided a broad range of tax relief, including lower tax rates on income, long term capital gains, and qualified dividends. We dodged the expiration of these lower taxes back in 2010 when Congress extended the tax cuts for two years (through 2012). Now cuts are set to expire on December 31, 2012, and any action will likely come down to the wire as it did in 2010.

It's difficult to predict what will happen, but three scenarios are possible:

All the tax cuts could expire if Congress and the president fail to reach an agreement before December 31. In this case, the new Congress could act in 2013 to reinstate some of or all the tax cuts.

The tax cuts could be extended temporarily, giving Congress time to act on a permanent solution—possibly by reforming the tax code.

Some type of compromise could be reached in the lame duck session, with some taxes extended or modified and others allowed to expire.

One area of uncertainty is income tax rates. Without action, the 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35% tax rates will increase, and the 10% tax bracket will go away.

The tax rates on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends, which are currently 15% (0% for taxpayers in the lowest two income brackets) are also set to change. Without Congressional action, the long-term capital gains rate would revert to 20% for most taxpayers and to 10% for those in the 15% income tax bracket in 2013. Qualified dividends, meanwhile, would go back to being taxed as ordinary income, so for some investors, the top tax rate could rise to 39.6%.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; obama; taxes; taxhikes
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1 posted on 09/07/2012 10:56:11 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Good luck.


2 posted on 09/07/2012 10:58:21 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Innovative

I’ll have to study this some more, but don’t think this will directly impact me much.


3 posted on 09/07/2012 11:08:13 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Innovative

“Now cuts are set to expire on December 31, 2012”

That’s OK. The US will cease to exist as a sovereign nation on Dec. 21, 2012. The new Islamic Socialist Republic of the Western Hemisphere will takes it’s place, with Valerie Jarret as Chairman Val.

Impossible? Tin-foil hat ? (women wearing female genital costumes are parading on NATIONAL TV in front of children, and people think I’m crazy)

Maybe. We’ll know soon.


4 posted on 09/07/2012 11:13:16 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The GOP should push to alter and simplify the AMT so that regardless of the number of deductions, credits, exemptions ... EVERYONE has to pay in at least the lowest tax rate on their taxable income.


5 posted on 09/07/2012 11:13:53 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Innovative

They are the Obama tax cuts. He took ownership when he extended them.


6 posted on 09/07/2012 11:19:34 AM PDT by kabar
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To: taxcontrol

I agree. If half the country has no skin in the game,many will vote for a welfare POTUS, because it is in their interest to do so.


7 posted on 09/07/2012 11:35:11 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: DonaldC

Unless you pay no income tax, note the bottome rung eliminates the lowest bracket entirely. Next up, if married, the marriage tax is back....so much so that my wife and I agreed if the SOB manages to do that, we get a paper divorce and become cohabitating adults for tax purposes. I am not giving that Kenyan one sou more than I absolutely have to.


8 posted on 09/07/2012 11:51:42 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: DonaldC
I’ll have to study this some more, but don’t think this will directly impact me much.

I'm glad it doesn't affect you much, but for most people who income, savings, or investments, it is a brutal tax increase.

9 posted on 09/07/2012 12:29:34 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: taxcontrol

The AMT needs to die.


10 posted on 09/07/2012 12:30:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: kabar
They are the Obama tax cuts. He took ownership when he extended them.

There is a Democrat running for Senate in Indiana named Joe Donnelly. In the House he has a solid record voting for all the Obama programs. But in his campaign, he tries to come off as a "moderate". He has a commercial supporting continuing the "Bush tax cuts" LOL.

11 posted on 09/07/2012 12:33:59 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: Innovative

Those of us who own small businesses had zero taxable profit this year, anyway, so what difference does it make?


12 posted on 09/07/2012 12:39:28 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: dfwgator

Once everyone is subject to the AMT .. it will die


13 posted on 09/07/2012 12:41:55 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Innovative

Are you sure that the rate is 164% for qualified dividends above the 15% tax rate pre-2013? I bet it is a typo.


14 posted on 09/07/2012 12:50:56 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

15 * 1.64 = 24.8 + 15 = 39.8


15 posted on 09/07/2012 12:55:14 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: Innovative

Oh, I see. The number is white is supposed to represent the increase as a percentage. A thousand pardons.


16 posted on 09/07/2012 12:58:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Mouton

I a curious if one of you can claim head of household?


17 posted on 09/07/2012 1:01:24 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

No...no kids here.


18 posted on 09/07/2012 1:08:19 PM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Innovative

Reference bump.


19 posted on 09/07/2012 3:07:00 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Innovative

All this breathless news flash from your friendly fidelity financial advisor. And just what brilliant strategy do they suggest you take to make a dazzling response to this to realize your retirement dreams?

Factual but just useless.


20 posted on 09/07/2012 4:10:59 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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