Category Archives: fiscal cliff

Tax Migration

An Embarrassing Metric Disappears Since 1991 the Internal Revenue Service has been compiling statistics on filers’ addresses, which the agency’s Statistics of Income division uses to show who is moving into and out of every county and state in the … Continue reading

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David Harsanyi: Fiscal cliff? We’ve already taken that dive. Our potential unfunded liabilities, what our government has promised to spend on entitlement programs in the future and won’t have money to pay, are estimated to total anywhere from $87 trillion … Continue reading

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Paul Mirengoff: Obama to Republicans: my offer is this, nothing Even Times reporter Jonathan Weisman seemed taken aback by the White House’s position. He described the offer as “loaded with Democratic priorities and short on detailed spending cuts.” As far … Continue reading

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If this is news to you, hate to tell you, but you haven’t been paying attention. Obama’s Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days

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Fearing a tripling of dividend tax rates next year, companies have found one-time payouts and early payments of quarterly dividends as a way to beat some of the impact of the “Fiscal Cliff.”

Special Dividends: Companies Shelling Out Billions to Beat the ‘Fiscal Cliff’

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