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Got a trimmer?

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Hedge Fund managers – you know, the lucky so-and-so’s who make hundreds and hundreds of millions in fees investing other lucky so-and-so’s money – are only paying capital gains tax (not income tax like all us working stiffs) on those fees, thanks to one of those magical “loopholes” that seem to elude me and my accountant annually. In my mathematically rudimentary mind, a “fee” registers as “income” for the recipient every time. Apparently capital gains tax is only 15% as investment is discretionary, and you put your money at risk. Okay, I buy that, but what the hell is risky about charging a fee for investing hundreds of billions of other people’s dollars? Hmmm…So I can see a case for “bodily” risk, but I still don’t understand why that qualifies you for a sweet tax deal – Unless of course, you can convince my accountant that the bodily harm risk of being an editorial cartoonist quailifies me for the 15% rate…

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 14th, 2007 at 9:28 am by Matt Davies.
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One Response to “Got a trimmer?”

  1. Steve C.

    It’s amazing how certain people get tax breaks and the rest of us get TAXED and TAXED and TAXED. Like the new tax proposal for NY. 8 dollars for the luxury to drive through manhattan. ENOUGH already.
    :-(

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Matt Davies is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Journal News. Born in London, he immigrated to the United States in 1983 and pursued his love of drawing, writing and making fun of people in positions of power throughout his educational career, while fitting in schoolwork in his spare time.

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