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Qualified Business Income Is Key Provision To Tax Cuts And Jobs Act

Is it possible that the Republicans are trying to create a world in which everybody is either living off capital or being entrepreneurial?  Frankly, I don’t think that will work well. Much of what makes the world work is people showing up and doing what they are told with skill, knowledge, and dedication. If they are getting a pretty fair deal, they will be loyal – more loyal than their employers deserve usually.  I have a great deal of admiration for entrepreneurs.  Part of my job is to understand them.  And there are other types of celebrated people that I stand in awe of.  But I could probably get by without them better than I could without the guys emptying the dumpster and plowing the snow in my condo complex. And for the life of me, I can’t see why I should pay less tax on the same dollars than they pay.

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Tax Cuts And Jobs Act Might Mean More Woman Partners

There was language in the bill to the effect that it would not apply to guaranteed payments.  But who needs guaranteed payments?  Last year Sally’s firm shared $10 million among the equity and income partners. It ended up being a 50/50 split.  $5 million for the thirty income partners and $5 million for the 15 equity partners.  The equity partners celebrated by going to a football game.  The income partners celebrated by going to the ballet. The $5 million to the income partners was $4.7 million in guaranteed payments and $300,000 in bonuses.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.