As published in the Winter Park/Maitland Observer, Thursday Jan. 3, 2012 Edition Offers... Read More »
The Truth about the Alt Min Tax
From Reason:
The Alternative Minimum Tax was created in 1969 to prevent 155 extremely wealthy taxpayers from using deductions and credits to avoid paying any federal income taxes. Yet as Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy explains in her latest appearance on Bloomberg TV, today the tax overwhelmingly impacts non-millionaires living in just a handful of states. By separating economic myths from economic realities, de Rugy explains the facts about the Alternative Minimum Tax.




In 1969 the add-on Minimum Tax was enacted. Not working as well as hoped it was replaced by the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) in the late 70s.
There were similarities between the two but the AMT was a very different approach
John,
Thanks for the information. I did not know that.