U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bei Lake Obama proposed exemption from some senior citizens of income tax to ensure that the elderly enjoy their twilight years.

Some tax experts believe that not only the elderly access to benefits and return on investment and economic burden in the light of young people, tax-free “robbing the poor to benefit the rich” suspicion.

Some analysts said that to meet the proposed tax-free standards of the elderly majority of the original tax-free, and does not appreciate this suggestion and Obama.

Age no clearly defined

Obama suggested that if the senior citizens whose income is less than 50,000 U.S. dollars, can be exempted from income tax.

Obama camp on the site declared: “If you work hard, pay taxes in accordance with the law, you have the right to enjoy life after retirement. But now too many elderly people are not such protection in low-income elderly…… basic fixed income, medical And energy costs are soaring in, so they struggled. ”

Website in the “economic issue” page listed the merits of this proposal, such as the United States about 7 million elderly people can Shaojiao 1,400 U.S. dollars a year per capita tax. However, the site does not have the “elderly” age concept defined.

Tax experts Chibi

Some tax experts said that such a tax exemption scheme seems to have disguised subsidies for the elderly suspect it is not necessary.

Associated Press quoted the experts as saying that on the one hand, the elderly have been a variety of care. U.S. federal government to health insurance and social security, pension plans and other ways to help the elderly, various groups have given economic concessions to this group.

“The elderly have housing, access to pensions, social security benefits and investment income,” the U.S. tax firm Deloitte and Touche who克林特斯特雷奇said, “and their younger than the age of 30 or 40 years old, and are working to Cuanqian to buy a house compared to their more affluent. ”

Failure to focus our efforts focus on

Some support the U.S. capital of Washington’s think-tank members Obama said that the proposal “less kind.”

Budget and policy priorities for research center Robert Gelinsitan said, “Most of the original low-income elderly do not have to pay income tax. In the income tax to be paid 50,000 U.S. dollars less than some of the elderly, because even though many people Retirement income and fewer assets but honest. ”

Gelinsitan that “links of the urgent need to resolve the various issues, specifically to reduce the tax burden of some people this is not the priority should be given to that.”


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