Wealthy, businesses would pay about $1 trillion more
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Key Points:
— It would also impose nearly $1 trillion in higher taxes on couples making more than $250,000 and individuals making more than $200,000 by not renewing tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush.
— It would give companies a $5,000 tax credit for each new worker they hire in 2010.
— Businesses that increase wages or hours for their current workers in 2010 would be reimbursed for the extra Social Security payroll taxes they would pay.
— The Making Work Pay tax credit provides families with up to $800 a year and individuals up to $400 a year through small increases in their weekly pay. Extending the tax credit through 2011 would save them $61 billion.
— Raise the top two income tax rates for individuals, from 33 percent and 35 percent, to 36 percent and 39.6 percent, respectively. Unless Congress intervenes, those rates will rise next Jan. 1 when Bush's tax cuts expire. That government would reap $365 billion over the next decade.
— Limit the itemized tax deductions high earners can claim for charitable donations, mortgage interest and state and local taxes, raising about $210 billion for the next decade.
— Increase the top capital gains tax rate from 15 percent to 20 percent for families making more than $250,000 a year and individuals making more than $200,000. The proposal would raise about $105 billion.
— Make the research and experimentation tax credit permanent, saving businesses about $83 billion over the next decade.
— Extend a provision allowing businesses buying equipment such as computers to speed up depreciation through 2010, saving them $20 billion over the next decade.
— Eliminate capital gains taxes on the sale of some small business stocks, as long as they are held for at least five years, saving taxpayers $8 billion over the next decade.
— Impose a "financial crisis responsibility fee" on large financial institutions, raising $90 billion over the next decade.
— Repeal a widely ignored law that taxes the personal use of company-issued cell phones like other fringe benefits, saving taxpayers $2.8 billion over 10 years.
— Restrict the ability of international companies to defer taxes on profits made overseas, raising about $26 billion over the next decade.
— Impose a total of about $39 billion in tax increases on oil, gas and coal companies over the next decade.
— Change the way profits made by investment fund managers are taxed, raising an additional $24 billion over the next decade.
