Mar 15

Get ready for an increase in taxes in the next few years

When the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) was enacted, part of its sales pitch was the cost would not exceed $1,000,000,000,000 (One TRILLION US Dollars) over the next ten years. Of course, most of the cost savings was done by implementing taxes immediately and not implementing most of the care provisions until 2014, four years after passage. Well, it doesn’t take a genius (of which there aren’t any in Congress) to see that if you start saving today, you can offset costs in the future. However, with an individual, the cost in the future are severely limited, because an individual only has limited resources. With the Federal government, the cost can continue to explode because the government can print its own money.

Which brings me to the recent “re-scoring” of Obamacare. For the next ten years, the cost is estimated to be $1,740,000,000,000 ($1.74 Trillion). Remember, we are still two years from getting most of the “benefits” of the legislation, but we can already see where it will lead on taxes.
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Mar 13

Reminder of Seminar on April 5

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Mar 05

Danged if you do; danged if you don’t

In what may be one of the stranger cases with the IRS, there is contention that the above sculpture is both worthless and worth up to $65 million at the same time.

Art dealer Ileana Sonnabend died in 2007 a resident of New York City and citizen of the United States. When she passed away, the value of her estate, as determined by her children, was around $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) and her estate was subject to federal and New York estate taxes. According to the tax returns, her Estate had to pay $331 million to Uncle Sam and $140 milliion to New York State for the estate taxes. Those are big numbers, but they do not even include the above “art”.

You see, the above sculpture includes a stuffed bald eagle. Because the bald eagle is a part of the work of art, there is a federal statute that says any sale of the piece will result in a fine up to $1,000,000 and imprisionment for up to one year in a federal pen. Because of the penalties against transfer, the executors of the Estate said the sculpture was was worth $0. The IRS and the Department of Revenue for New York feel differently, though. They allege that even with the penalties, the sculpture is worth $65 million, which would cause another $40 million in taxes to be due.
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So what is the family going to have to do? They will have to pay the $40 million in taxes and hold on to a worthless sculpture that they can only donate to a federal institution or a Native American musuem (the only institutions which are permitted bald eagle artifacts), but even with the donation, they are not entitled to any tax deduction.

What you should learn from this is “get rid of any contraband worth any money before you die.”

Mar 02

The “Buffet Rule” and misconceptions on the income tax

Much reporting (or more specifically, parrotting of information) has been done recently on the allegation that Warren Buffett pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary. There are several key components to this statement which make it factual, but very misleading. I don’t want to get too deep into the politics of it, but I thought I would provide a few highlights from my perspective (not that it will change anything).

Warren Buffett is correct that his effective tax rate is much lower than that of his secretary. This is because Warren Buffett makes most of his income from long-term investments while his secretary makes most of her income from compensation from working.

Congress has passed the Internal Revenue Code so that the income from investments is taxed at a favorable rate (long-term capital gains are now taxed at a maximum rate of 15%), while other “ordinary income” (e.g., wages, earnings, interest, rents) are taxed at the marginal rate, which is now capped at 35%.

Now, we will assume that Warren and his secretary both take the same salary from his company ($200,000). Since both are married, they will both owe taxes at the about the same rate (one might have deductions the other doesn’t, so it won’t be exact). But, in addition to the salary that Warren takes, he gets $1,000,000 in long-term capital gains distributed to him. This is only taxed at 15%. When you factor in this lower rate on significantly higher income, the effective rate is reduced significantly.

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1. Although Warren is paying a lower effective rate, he is still paying more in taxes. In the simple scenario above, the taxes were $150,000 more than what his secretary paid. In real life, this is probably far greater.

2. The reason there are favorable rates on long-term assets is because those assets are taken out of the individual’s own use and invested where other individuals get use of them and pay their share of taxes on the use. ($1 Million invested with a company will likely result in 10 more employees, who then have to pay their own share of taxes on the wages paid them.) In addition, Congress considers the time value of money, which says that $1 today will not be worth $1 in the future due to inflation, so the lower rate encourages investing that dollar today.

3. Warren could rearrange his portfolio so that he doesn’t get the long-term rates. He could sell every asset he owns one day shy of one year, then reinvest in the same company. By Warren taking this step, he will recognize income on his investments every year and won’t have to be burdened by the lower rate.

Feb 29

Oklahoma takes step forward in allowing liability protection for farmers/ranchers

I was informed by my local State Senator this past week that an issue I wanted addressed by our new Governor and her administration has been resolved. The best part is the resolution will greatly help farmers and ranchers in Oklahoma.

A little background: The Oklahoma State Constitution provides for the exemption from ad valorem taxation of household goods and livestock employed in the support of a family. Okla. Const. Art. 10, Sec. 8A. The previous Attorney General issued an opinion on this provision that stated “in support of a family” was limited to farmers and/or ranchers that owned the livestock in their individual name or as sole propreitorships. If livestock were owned through a limited liability company, a family partnership or a corporation, the livestock should have been subject to the County’s ad valorem taxes.

The conflict that arises here is that all of the forms of ownership that allowed for exemption from property taxes would subject the farmer or rancher to unlimited liability in the event a lawsuit arose. For example, if a fence went down and cattle were out at night and caused a significant automobile accident, the farmer and his insurance would have to pay all judgments that arose from that accident; even to the point of having to sell land, if the judgment far exceeded liability coverage. Under the previous Attorney General ruling, there was no way to limit the liability to just the cattle unless you wanted to pay ad valorem taxes on them.

I was informed that the new Attorney General opinion approves the use of family limited liability entites. The opinion supposedly interprets the clause (in the state Constitution) “in support of the family” to include any entity where a family unit, consisting of common descendents, e.g. father/son, siblings, or cousins, to be exempt from ad valorem taxation on livestock as well. When the opinion is published, I will have more detail. In addition, my local Senator informed me the Legislature is proposing a bill to make this interpretation a statute, rather than just an Attorney General opinion.

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