The U.S. and Chinese economies are two of the largest economies in the world. Both the countries depend on each for trade and investments. Like the Siamese twins it can be argued that the economies of these countries are inter-linked with one another. In this article, let us compare China and the U.S. based on …
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I wrote a post about the dividend tax rates across countries over the weekend. In this post lets take a look at the Integrated Top Long-term Capital Gains Tax Rates. Click to enlarge Source: Corporate dividend and capital gains taxation: A comparison of the United States to other developed nations, April 2015, Alliance for Savings and Investment (ASI) …
Alcohol consumption is high in most European countries compared to the U.S. However Russia is one of the top alcohol consuming countries in the world but is not in this chart since it is an OECD country. If Russia is included it will top out all the countries. Click to enlarge Source: Tackling Harmful Alcohol Use, …
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The following Periodic Table of Investment Returns shows why diversification in a portfolio is very important. Regardless of how big one’s portfolio is it is wise to spread the asset among various asset classes and not put everything in a single basket. Click to enlarge KEY: ◼ Cash represented by the Citigroup 3-Month T-Bill Index, …
Many years ago I wrote an article comparing the capital gains tax rate between the U.S. and other countries. In this post lets review how the dividend tax rates differ among select countries. Generally it is assumed that dividend taxes are paid by equity holder only.However that is not true. Taxes on a company’s profit are …
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