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  • Safire
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2005
    • 253

    #1

    Amt

    It does not make sense to me that a man that has a total tax bill of 97,627 would get hit with another 1k of AMT.

    Something is broken in this country.
  • Koss
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2005
    • 2256

    #2
    Acronyms

    I think some folks in Congress are seriously confused about the abbreviation, and think that the Alternative Minimum Tax is an ATM. They consider it a mechanism that is used to draw cash from taxpayers...
    Burton M. Koss
    koss@usakoss.net

    ____________________________________
    The map is not the territory...
    and the instruction book is not the process.

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    • JohnH
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2007
      • 5339

      #3
      Good old days

      Depending upon the outcome of the next election, within a couple of years we may all be looking back on the problems with the AMT as the good old days by comparison;.
      "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectful" - John Kenneth Galbraith

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      • JG EA
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2005
        • 2176

        #4
        Originally posted by Koss
        I think some folks in Congress are seriously confused about the abbreviation, and think that the Alternative Minimum Tax is an ATM. They consider it a mechanism that is used to draw cash from taxpayers...

        Good one! And if doesn't get fixed again this year our clients will run over us with an ATV.
        JG

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        • Safire
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2005
          • 253

          #5
          "our clients will run over us with an ATV."

          Yeah, how exactly do we explain to a client that 90k just isn't quite enough tax for Uncle Sam, LOL

          I would love to have his tax bill as my salary.

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          • David1980
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2008
            • 1703

            #6
            Well at some level of income 90k is probably too low really. If I had someone who made $1 million I wouldn't feel bad if they owed more than 90k.

            It must be nice to have an income high enough that you owe $90k.

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            • Safire
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2005
              • 253

              #7
              Originally posted by David1980
              Well at some level of income 90k is probably too low really. If I had someone who made $1 million I wouldn't feel bad if they owed more than 90k.

              It must be nice to have an income high enough that you owe $90k.
              The fact that he had to pay the 90k doesn't bother me, it's that fact that it wasn't enough.

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