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Twenty-six of the top 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2011 made more than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a study released recently by the Institute for Policy Studies....
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The Federal Deficit narrowed in July due to higher tax receipts. The deficit for October through July was $973.84 billion and that compares with $1.1 trillion for the same ten month period of 2011....
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has one trait that most other broad market indexes cannot claim: Every single component pays a dividend to its shareholders. With only a few exceptions, these DJIA...
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With China’s growth slowing further and with Europe’s woes growing each day, economic data in the United States continues to ride the line closer to recessionary levels. Japan hit a 28-year low...
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reacted to a New York Times article which detailed the manner in which it lowers its own corporate taxes and those of its workers. The newspaper did not accuse Apple of any...
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The utility sector has been a rather poor performer so far in 2012, as investors have sought growth and less dependence on high payouts, and higher dividend taxes could be a possibility after this...
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Many members of Congress and business executives voiced alarm when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2012 Statutory Corporate Tax Rates were released. Of course, some of...
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The latest Reuters/Ipsos reports that over 60% of those asked favor the “Buffett” tax. This tax would make people who earn over $1 million a year to have a minimum tax rate of 30%. The...
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2011 was the year of the utility stocks offering investors high dividend yields of well over 4.0%. 2012 has not gone so well for the sector, with 25 of the 34 S&P 500 Index utilities down for...
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Dividend investors potentially have a lot to lose in the 2012 Presidential election. While the real crux of the matter may boil down to which party rules the House and/or Senate in 2013 and beyond,...
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The White House and some in Congress favor tax breaks for companies that bring back jobs from overseas. It appears that most Americans do as well, which sets up a tension between job creation and an...
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The gap between what taxpayers owed the IRS and what was paid on time in 2006 was $385 billion. Multiply that by the five years since, and one year of the national deficit would be more than paid...
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24/7 Wall St. has just released its 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio for investors. While we have many names we have featured as buys in our income and defensive stock sectors, this is the first time...
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New York governor Mario Cuomo has set a new system to tax high-income earners and give tax relief to middle-class state residents. The program looks quite a bit like a plan set by California...
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