taxes

The Tax Foundation rolled out a new map last week looking at state excise tax rates on beer. High tax rates are more likely to affect major brewers like Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) and Molson Coors (NYSE: TAP) than craft brewers, whose already higher prices have drawn in a faithful who are willing...

President Obama’s federal health care law requires almost everyone to be insured, and ensures that coverage will be made available to those already ill or in need of expensive care. The ruling clears the way for a large restructuring of the health care system and affects virtually every...

Many lawyers, tax professionals,  and financial planners around the USA are focused on the new tax laws, changes, adjustments, and rates. While the tax rates and estate taxes are presently  fair for most Americans, the estate taxes are set to rocket up in 2013 if changes do not occur.  This...

By Lance Roberts, Street Talk Live The problems facing the U.S. economy are daunting especially when it comes the issues of Government spending and the current deficit. We recently wrote about the dependency on Government programs which is currently making up as much as 35% of personal incomes...

The Economic Issues and Some Defensive Strategies and Ideas According to the WESP "World Economic Situation and Prospects Report" from the United Nations, the US and global economy is  in a rut and having extreme difficulty moving forward.  The report recommends  that governments must be...

A recent Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Mr. Normal Meets Mrs. Merkel” got me thinking. Why are Americans screaming about their tax levels? We have among the lowest federal tax rates in the civilized world and certainly the lowest our country has experienced in the past several decades. In the...

Californicated? Visit with a few posts by Russ Winter and Mish Shedlock.  California and “Solving Problems” Courtesy of Russ Winter of Winter Watch at Wall Street Examiner American masters of the universe and their toadies give self serving lip service to covering some...

Is it deja vu and will 2012 be a repeat of 2010? It was less than two years ago when the United States Congress, faced with an election year and a pre-mandated reversion of the tax laws to those in place in 2001, “kicked the can” down the road and extended the Bush tax cuts to 2013....

As a wealth management consultant and professor for over a decade, it is that time again to file our taxes.  With tax filings, we must document our income, expenses, deductions, exemptions, retirement contributions and so forth.  Some of us must file our taxes for partnerships or corporations....

By Robert A. Green, CPA and founder of Green & Company Inc. (GreenTraderTax.com and GreenTraderFunds.com)< br/> Continuation of our blog series on problems with 1099s for 2011 taxes. Contrary to public perception, securities brokers' cost-basis reporting on 1099-Bs rarely matches...