lemm.ee

1 point

1 year ago

A majority of wealth doesn’t come from income so would never be touched by income tax. A “wealth tax” is just a broad term meaning that they should be taxed on the wealth fairly. Like capital gains for instance is a doozy. Way less taxation than what you likely pay (percentage wise obviously).

So “wealth tax” would include an income tax, capital tax, estate tax etc, all just at rates that are equivalent to how well the system treats them. They get a much larger advantage off the system that is set up than most others.

And the ultra wealthy don’t even always have an income. You think Bezos has a salary right now that’s significantly attributing to his wealth? Or Buffet or even Zuckerberg? I forget, his his salary still $1 a year? You want to tax only that?

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solstice@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

You don’t get it. Unrealized capital gains are just deferred income. It’ll be taxed eventually. Income tax is fine, banish the thought of wealth tax.

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1 point

1 year ago

But they’re literally not counted under income tax law. So you’re essentially arguing for the exact same thing if you want it to count under some sort of tax.

Edit: short term capital gains is the only one that counts as income. Long term is not and is severely under taxed compared to income tax. Like, I like your intentions, but you’re severely fucking up the details and it details your entire motivation and intentions.

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solstice@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

When your comment backed me up, I didn’t find any reason to respond. Capital gains tax isn’t income tax. You admitted it by typing it out. You’re just showing that “wealth tax” is just a tax on various means of wealth. I don’t know if English isn’t your first language, but you’re literally agreeing with everyone but saying you don’t.

No one owes you anything, nor do they owe you a response. Especially when it didn’t back up your own point.

Thanks for typing out a lot of words to say “you want taxes other than income.”

You never even offered a rebuttal to what I said. You’re a fucking joke.

Don’t talk to me again. You’re so unhinged you came back 6 days because someone decided you weren’t worth the fucking time to respond to due to your shitty ass logic and poor understanding of language. So again, capital gains tax is not income tax. You agree. Thanks. You understand that “wealth tax” is just a broad term that means taxes on things other than their income (which in many cases is $1, such as Zuckerberg).

You’re not a CPA. If you are? I feel bad for your clients as they’re gonna get fucked in audits.

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https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

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solstice@lemmy.world

0 points

1 year ago

So again, capital gains tax is not income tax.

Line 7: Capital gain or (loss)

Cant possibly get more clear than that.

Confidently incorrect as they say. The hubris of talking shit about technical subjects to an sme is just staggering.

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1 year ago

That’s only short term capital gains tax. Long term capital gains is taxed at a different rate than short term. I literally already mentioned that.

Edit: to be clear, Schedule D would include sales of assets that aren’t required to be reported on 1040. https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi you can follow the instructions there and specifically where it tells you how to choose different tax rates than, you know, the income tax rate.

Double edit: and id still argue you want the same as everyone. Changing the income tax rate wouldn’t do anything. You have to understand that by this point. You’d need to account for things like capital gains tax and what not. Wealth tax is simply asking for higher tax rates on things like income or capital gains, etc. If you’re a CPA, you have to know that if you’re going to limit what can be taxed to simply and only the income tax rate, it’s easy to hide income in things that are taxed differently. Things like foreign assets, etc. Again. “wealth tax” is not antithetical to what you want. But your claim (which you explicitly gave an income tax rate as your example for income tax) that everything goes through that income tax rate is absolutely false. I think you’re just getting confused because these values get combined on one form in the end. But there’s a reason there’s a Schedule D. Because it’s more complicated than just being subject to income tax.

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