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Energy Tax Credits For Businesses
January 30th, 2011
Question: What is the reason for deductions and credits?
I am just wondering why we have so many deductions and credits in our tax system. Wouldn’t it be much simpler for everyone (businesses, the public and the government) if we all just paid our share and we had fewer deductions and loopholes? I understand some of the deductions we give such as deductions for children (obviously a family should pay less than a single guy only supporting himself), and some other deductions which offer incentives for doing things that are beneficial (such as tax breaks to green energy companies to research new energy). But why do we have SO MANY deductions and credits?
Answer: While I agree that the tax code is extremely complex, it is not because of the deductions and credits.
Deductions and credits serve two purposes. First, they do encourage behavior that the government support. Second, they stimulate the economy. If we paid more money to the government, we would have less money to spend on things such as housing. Without a deduction for mortgage interest, people would be less inclined to buy houses.
As far as supporting large families, taxpayers only get credits for the first two children they have. They get dependency exemptions, but without them people would go broke. Furthermore, families with large incomes get exempt from lots of the deductions and credits. Notice at the bottom of schedule A where you have to determine if your deductions are limited. These deductions and credits do help the people they are intended to.
The only reason the tax code is so complicated is because people try to beat the system. They attempt the breaks allowed by the government to benefit themselves even if they were not originally intended to. If you really look at each deduction and credit, they are all useful.
MEDC’s high-tech business tax credits, film incentives would be phased out under Rick Snyder plan
Film industry incentives and high-tech business tax credits distributed by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. would be eliminated as part of Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposal to restructure the state’s business tax structure, according to a Detroit News report…….
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Solar Energy Tax Credits
April 30th, 2010
Question: Do you think that the house would had stayed in session for an energy bill. If the republicans had not ?
already taken a tax credit away from people that were going to use solar or wind. Instead the republicans were only interested in giving more money to the oil company”s. I would have gone on vacation too!
Answer: Republican Abuse -like a husband who beats his wife then turns around and blames her for making him angry. That is what it seems like to me. I actually have Republican friends who were into the Solar panel business -they are voting Independentt now.
Home tax credit deal expires tonight, but other offers don’t
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