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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Alighieri who wrote (602023)2/28/2011 12:18:58 PM
From: Brumar89   of 1581932
 
Yes, they are temporary .... because of continual investment, when old accelerated depreciation deductions are used up, there are acc depr deductions on new investment to offset them. But yes, temporary differences like acc depr are temporary. Eventually you get to write off all the cost of an investment, its just a matter of how fast.

The Treasury Department estimates that various corporate tax breaks will cost the federal government more than $1.2 trillion over the next ten years (2008-2017), a period during which total corporate revenues are projected to equal $3.4 trillion.[7]

Temporary my ass...look at the net effect over a ten year period.


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Yes, small corps don't pay the top rate. Why do you want to tax small struggling corps more? There's not much money involved in these lower rates.

many smaller corporations do not face the top statutory corporate tax rate.
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