Episode 131: The Joe Biden Capital Gains Tax Proposal
This is an apolitical podcast. The goal is to call out fiscal irresponsibility no matter what side of the aisle it’s on. It’s less about politics and more about math. Joe Biden recently came up with a proposal to reform capital gains taxes. The increased revenue that is thought to come from this reform is earmarked to pay for childcare, universal pre-kindergarten education, and paid leave for workers. The state of capital gains taxes currently is that if you are in the 10% or 12% tax bracket you don’t pay any capital gains taxes. It currently sits at 20% for people above those brackets and for people making more than $250,000 per year there is an additional surtax of 3.8%. This puts the baseline for wealthy Americans at 23.8%. When it comes to capital gains tax, there are four different taxes that may come into play. The first is at the federal level, then there are also state capital gains taxes and local capital gains taxes in some parts of the country, and finally the Obamacare surt...
Ep 131: The Joe Biden Capital Gains Tax Proposal
May 5, 2021
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This is an apolitical podcast. The goal is to call out fiscal irresponsibility no matter what side of the aisle it’s on. It’s less about politics and more about math. Joe Biden recently came up with a proposal to reform capital gains taxes. The increased revenue that is thought to come from this ref...
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