swstout
07-21-2010, 09:20 PM
You probably have heard about the “Fair Tax”. What is it?
A group known as Americans for Fair Taxation developed the Fair Tax Act of 2003 which would abolish all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes. It would replace them with a federal retail sales tax of 23% to be administered by existing state sales tax authorities. The sales tax would not apply to imports, goods used by businesses to produce other goods, or used goods.
Normally, a 23% sales tax would impact the poor the most. Therefore, the Fair Tax Act proposes that a prebate be paid equivalent to 23% of the poverty level. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the poverty guideline for a family of four in 2008 is $21,200. The Fair Tax act adds an amount to remove the marriage penalty, which raised the income level to $27,380. This means a family of four would receive a check for $525 per month, or $6,297 a year, to cover the cost of the sales tax.
What Are the Advantages of the Fair Tax?:
The most obvious advantage is the elimination of the annual income tax headache and cost of tax preparers. Government spending would be reduced by eliminating the IRS. Proponents argue that, since workers would keep 100% of their wages, the increased consumer spending would lead to an increase in GDP, jobs, productivity, and wages.
How it would affect Government
Government would have to budget according to monthly tax income eliminating the “projected income”
Special interest groups will be essentially sidelined
Unfunded mandates would be eliminated
People will be taxes by what they spend, not what they earn.
Government growth would be checked
Calculate how a “Fair Tax would affect YOU
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=calculator (http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=calculator)
Steve
A group known as Americans for Fair Taxation developed the Fair Tax Act of 2003 which would abolish all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes. It would replace them with a federal retail sales tax of 23% to be administered by existing state sales tax authorities. The sales tax would not apply to imports, goods used by businesses to produce other goods, or used goods.
Normally, a 23% sales tax would impact the poor the most. Therefore, the Fair Tax Act proposes that a prebate be paid equivalent to 23% of the poverty level. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the poverty guideline for a family of four in 2008 is $21,200. The Fair Tax act adds an amount to remove the marriage penalty, which raised the income level to $27,380. This means a family of four would receive a check for $525 per month, or $6,297 a year, to cover the cost of the sales tax.
What Are the Advantages of the Fair Tax?:
The most obvious advantage is the elimination of the annual income tax headache and cost of tax preparers. Government spending would be reduced by eliminating the IRS. Proponents argue that, since workers would keep 100% of their wages, the increased consumer spending would lead to an increase in GDP, jobs, productivity, and wages.
How it would affect Government
Government would have to budget according to monthly tax income eliminating the “projected income”
Special interest groups will be essentially sidelined
Unfunded mandates would be eliminated
People will be taxes by what they spend, not what they earn.
Government growth would be checked
Calculate how a “Fair Tax would affect YOU
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=calculator (http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=calculator)
Steve