President Obama’s proposed budget includes dividend tax rate increase to 39.6 percent

Alexandra Myers
The Daily Caller
2/23/2012

Buried in President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget proposal is a whopping increase in the dividend tax rate.

In 2003, under President George W. Bush, the rate dropped five percent from 20 to the current 15. Obama now wants to raise it to 39.6 percent.

This is not the first time the Obama administration has proposed a tax hike on investors. Previously, the administration proposed increasing the tax rate to more than twenty percent.

If adopted, the president’s proposed budget would make the tax paid on corporate dividends the same as the top rate individuals will pay on earned income starting in 2013 — 39.6 percent.

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece, however, states that the real tax rate on dividends proposed by the president would be about 44.8 percent.

“Add in the planned phase-out of deductions and exemptions, and the rate hits 41 percent. Then add the 3.8 percent investment tax surcharge in ObamaCare, and the new dividend tax rate in 2013 would be 44.8 percent — nearly three times today’s 15 percent rate.”…

The article continues at The Daily Caller.

UpdateHotAir‘s Ed Morrissey wrote, “…The ‘global minimum tax’ makes an appearance, along with a laughable pledge to pay for the rate reduction by–wait for it–“greater fiscal responsibility…”

Read the excellent article at HotAir.com.

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