The race is on for wealthy Americans to save on taxes before
Jan. 1, Bloomberg’s best tell us. President
Barack Obama’s re-election means his administration will push to let tax cuts
enacted during the George W. Bush era expire for high earners, as scheduled, at
year-end. Obama wants to increase the top federal income tax rate to 39.6
percent from 35 percent, boost rates on long-term capital gains to as much as
23.8 percent, and shrink exemptions from estate-and-gift taxes.
“If you have to put a movie title on what’s going to happen
from now until the end of the year it would be: ‘The Fast and the Furious,’”
said Jeff Saccacio, a personal financial services partner at New York-based
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. “The wise, smart people are preparing themselves
for a sunset of the Bush tax cuts.” Wealthy
investors have about a month and a half to examine their investment gains and
losses left over from previous years, as well as to consider ways to move
income into 2012 and transfer assets to heirs, Saccacio said. Now is the time
to start running the calculations, he said….
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