Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rising property values are also making it tougher to own a final club in Harvard Square. Those big picturesque old piles are just as old and valuable as Harvard's--but Harvard's are tax-exempt, and the clubs must pay taxes at the high business rate...
...that logic, the ongoing work on comprehensive welfare reform or the passage of the Tax Reform Act, two of the more substantial and far-reaching pieces of domestic legislation in recent years, were simply means for calculating congressmen to ensure themselves a return ticket to Capitol Hill...
...Tax Reform Act closed loopholes for the rich created by the 1981 Reagan tax cut and took millions of Americans living in poverty off the taxpaying rolls. The welfare reform legislation would provide direction to a system that liberals and conservatives alike agree is in dire need of repair. If that's mere politicking...
Volatility could be curbed with taxes on short-swing profits. We should impose a 50% tax on profits from the sale of securities held for less than one year. At the same time, capital gains on securities held for more than five years could be reduced from a maximum of 33% to 15%, possibly on a sliding scale. The effect of such a tax change would be to inhibit short-term trading activities of large institutional investors by making long-term holdings much more attractive economically...
...should encourage equity investment and discourage excessive debt % through changes in the tax laws. Specifically, the double tax on dividend payments by corporations should be eliminated. In many European countries, companies are taxed only on retained earnings and not on profits distributed as dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt...