Obama Victory Leads Wealthy to Make Quick Pre-2013 Moves

[xchrom]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/obama-victory-leads-wealthy-to-make-quick-pre-2013-moves.html


Images of President Barack Obama, left, and Republican Mitt Romney on a monitor while a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 7, 2012.

The race is on for wealthy Americans to save on taxes before Jan. 1.

President Barack Obama’s re-election means his administration will push to let tax cuts enacted during the George W. Bush era expire for high earners, as scheduled, at year-end. Obama wants to increase the top federal income tax rate to 39.6 percent from 35 percent, boost rates on long-term capital gains to as much as 23.8 percent, and shrink exemptions from estate-and-gift taxes.

“If you have to put a movie title on what’s going to happen from now until the end of the year it would be: ‘The Fast and the Furious,’” said Jeff Saccacio, a personal financial services partner at New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. “The wise, smart people are preparing themselves for a sunset of the Bush tax cuts.”

Wealthy investors have about a month and a half to examine their investment gains and losses left over from previous years, as well as to consider ways to move income into 2012 and transfer assets to heirs, Saccacio said. Now is the time to start running the calculations, he said.

[msongs]

1. those who benefit most from living in the USA want to pay the least for that benefit nt

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

2. How very patriotic of the rich.

Guillotines!