What Do You Think About Segregation.?
Considering the cultural isolation I've witnessed in a multi-cultural public school (ie, Vietnamese with other Vietnamese), I think there should be an option to segregate for the sake of comfort. From what I understand, "Chinatowns" in every major city have been a great benefit to the Asian-American community. What if the western cities like Seattle, San Fran or Portland had a "Little Moscow" for the Slavic immigrants? They might enjoy the same tourism profits that Chinatown has.
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What is the integration of sint/(4+cost^2)dt?
Let u = cos t du = - sin t dt int [ - du / ( 4 + u^2 ) ] = - ( 1 / 2 )arctan ( u / 2 ) + C = ( - 1 / 2 )arctan [ ( 1 / 2 )cos t ] + C
Why did they have segregated bathrooms and water fountains in the U.S.?
I know they didn't like the "colored" folk, but still, I'd get the idea if it were cheaper, but it cost more money to put in two bathrooms per sex and two water fountains.
Does state tax reduction work on federal taxes?
Yes; however, state taxes are an itemized deduction on Schedule A, so they only reduce taxable income if the total amount of your itemized deductions (which include more than just state taxes) exceed your standard deduction. By themselves, state taxes don't necessarily reduce your taxable income dollar for dollar; it depends on what other itemized deductions you have and whether the total exceeds your standard deduction. In the case you describe, if you are single and had no other deductions, your state taxes would reduce your taxable income by $2900 more than your standard deduction of $6100; if you are married filing jointly, your wife had no income, and you had no other deductions, your state taxes would be less than your standard deduction of $12,200 and you'd have no additional benefit from them on your federal return. (The amount that a typical taxpayer pays in state taxes is part of the input used to determine the standard deduction, which is set at a level that will push the majority of taxpayers toward taking the standard deduction.)For a discussion of how you determine whether you itemize or take the standard deduction, see the linked section of Publication 17 (2013), Your Federal Income Tax. Note that, as I said in my answer to Can state income taxes (California) reduce federal taxes?, when you itemize, include your state taxes, and get a refund on your state taxes, some or all of the refund will have to be added back into your income the following year.
As a dealer in real estate-Are homes I purchase treated as inventory/Is purchase of inventory considered a cost that is deductible in year purchased?
No, as the previous answer mentioned you still have to abide by the typical depreciation allowances. It's not possible to deduct the entire purchase price of the home in year 1.However, what you can do is hire an engineer to conduct a cost segregation study. A cost segregation study will allow you to depreciate individual assets separately rather than everything as a whole. Instead of normally depreciating everything over 27.5 yrs, you could depreciate personal property and land improvements in 5–7 yrs. Also, buildings must be depreciated using single-line depreciation, but personal property can be depreciated using the declining balance method. This alone will result in large tax savings.Furthermore, it sounds like you qualify for a “"real estate professional” designation from the IRS (google it). This means that you can use any real estate losses as a deduction against your ordinary income. Someone who was not a “real estate proffesional” could only use real estate losses to offset income from capital gains. Minimizing your tax liability for ordinary income is obviously more valuable as ordinary income is taxed at a much higher rate than capital gains.Hope this helps!
Does segregated neighborhood solve racial problem?
Segregation by law should be avoided at all cost. Segregation by choice is a different thing though. I'm South African and grew up during Apartheid, where segregation was law. We were locked in war for almost 3 decades because of it. It ended in 1994, now there is only segregation by choice and racial tension has dropped dramatically. You have to remember that people stay among those they feel comfortable with. Most neighborhood have at least 3 races staying there without racial problems. But there are slums like in any country, where all races stay together and problems are caused by all of them. Now we have predominantly white/ black/ colored/ Asian neighborhoods, but it's not law...it's choice.
Which was a major reason why millions of African Americans moved to the North during the Great Migration?
D. high-paying factory jobs Even before America's entry into World War II, industrial production in the Northeast and Midwest increased rapidly as a result of Cash and Carry and the Lend-Lease Act, and people were needed to staff the factories.
What are the most creative ways you’ve seen someone avoid paying taxes?
There is a difference between tax avoidance (which is perfectly legal), and tax evasion, which is cheating.Creative ways I’ve read about people cheating -Deducting personal expenses by writing them off as business expensesTaking checks of less than $10,000 received from clients, going to cash stores, and getting the cash and not depositing the money into personal accountsThis may not be creative but it’s very well accepted - people in cash intensive businesses simply skimming the cash off the top and not reporting the full amounts of their income. This is pervasive amongst the lower income tiers in service-based businesses such as child care, cleaning services, lawn care, and even other small service-based businesses.But this is cheating. If you are motivated you will find ways to cheat. One of the reasons our income tax system works so well comparatively is that the vast majority of the tax paying populace is relatively honest in their dealings.But I digress - what are some of the most creative ways I’ve seen people avoid paying taxes?I do work for real estate developers and operators. I got a new client several years ago who had built a hotel. When it came to depreciating the hotel (writing off the cost of construction over time) they had missed a key factor (for those who are interested, it’s called cost segregation) in calculating those deductions.I recommended it to them, and they obtained a one-year deduction in the amount of $3,000,000. They had investors in their hotel, but collectively their own family saved about $900k of taxes in just one year. With that 900k of taxes, they effectively had the government finance their next acquisition which was a farm.Is that tax evasion? No, because it’s perfectly legal and thus qualifies as tax avoidance. As the infamous (to us CPAs at least) Judge Learned Hand said, “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. public duty to pay more than the law demands”.