Addressing the political issues influence on tax

Addressing the political issues influence on tax

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Introduction

Political interests are very influential aspect when it comes to taxation in any country.  Like a double aged sword, political interest may be retracted to greedy ambitions of politicians or work for the betterment of the citizens well being. Every government works toward achieving specific economic grow through tax policies, however, with political interference economic growth may remain a pipe dream. Fortunately, for every problem generate by human ingenuity, solution are with reach of human ingenuity. The solution to the tax challenges of tax cuts and evasions is a follows.

Eliminate tax cuts for the Wealthy

The first solution to the American tax situation is to stop extending tax cuts to people who do not need or deserve the tax cuts. An example of such tax cuts is that extended to American wealthy people. Former American president, George w. Bush came up with tax cuts covering the rich in America. It is obvious that the wealthy do not need the tax cut (Popadiuk, 2009). If anything, they tax increment. Unfortunately, Preside Obama plans to reinstate this tax regime when their tenure comes to any end by the end of the year.  Obama and his government should avoid this since it will deny the government a lot of money. According to Bradford (2012) if the tax cuts extended to the wealthy Americans are not stopped, America stand to loose about $1 trillion in the next decade. This is a large sum of money that would help the government improve the amount of tax it collects.

Redefine Middleclass tax brackets

Redefining tax brackets is a necessary step to reduce tax losses through tax cuts to the middle class and small businesses. The democrats argue that is necessary to extend tax cuts to the middle class since the have numerous financial challenges that they have to meet (Prince, 2012). Unfortunately, the middle class forms a large bulk on people in the country and continuing extending tax cuts to them will deny the country an opportunity to improve it tax collection. To navigate around this challenge, the government should not the tax cuts to the entire middleclass. In fact, the government should only target the people earning from slightly above to way bellow the nation mean salary. This will ensure that only people, who deserve the cuts, like those who earn less than they need get the cuts. According to The wall Street Journal (2012) if Obama increases the tax on the wealthy American by 100% and extends the 20% tax cut he promised the middles class, he will still be unable to rise the revenue require to fund his ambitious development agenda.  To avoid this, he should develop tax classifications among.............