Tax avoidance articles
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Are Municipal Bonds a Good Investment To Avoid Federal Taxes?
Bonds are an important part of a typical investment portfolio. That’s especially true the closer you get to retirement and once you’ve retired. Bonds typically lower the overall risk of your portfolio vs. putting together a portfolio comprised of 100% equities (stocks). However, during the period following the onset of COVID-19 (when inflation jumped to […]
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Lathrop avoided Ripon Fire’s fate with sales tax
The City of Lathrop in 2012 saw the proverbial writing on the wall. Relying on a fire district dependent only on property taxes was severely compromising the ability to protect homes, businesses, and lives within the city limits.
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A Taxing Timeat Tax Time
Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...