CNN just had an interesting article titled “Obama’s rude shock to six-figure earners”.
The group that’s hit hardest are the taxpayers I call the HENRYs, for “High Earners Not Rich Yet.” The HENRYs are families who make between $250,000 and $500,000 a year.
Here’s how the HENRYs will get hammered. Say a family earns $300,000 a year, and pays $50,000 a year in mortgage interest; the family also contributes $5,000 to Boy Scouts, Red Cross and other charities. Under the AMT’s top effective tax rate of 35%, they benefit from savings of $19,250 on those deductions. But under Obama’s new plan, the share of that $55,000 that HENRYs can deduct is no longer 35%. It’s capped at 28%. Hence, their tax bill rises by almost $4,000. That’s a jump in their marginal tax rate, the crucial share of an extra dollar of income they get to keep, from 35% to over 37%.
I guess that makes me a LENRY for Low Earners Never Rich Indefinitely.
Source – CNN.com
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