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A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied
- pxeger1 5y ago> some of Silicon Valley’s marquee start-ups — including Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Zoom, Pinterest and DoorDash What does "marquee" mean here?
- skmurphy 5y agofamous - the marquee is the signage outside of a theatre where the title and stars of a performance are listed.
- drewcoo 5y agoI assumed it was "marque," as in recognizable brand, both misspelled and misused. NYT can't seem to afford copyeditors these days.
- tablespoon 5y ago> I assumed it was "marque," as in recognizable brand, both misspelled and misused. NYT can't seem to afford copyeditors these days. Given the error was on your end, maybe they're doing just fine with their copyeditors and it's your grading that's the issue with your evaluation.
- byteCoder 5y agoNo paywall version: http://archive.today/2021.12.29-072341/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/business/tax-break-qualified-small-business-stock.html http://archive.today/2021.12.29-072341/https://www.nytimes.c... The article describes the use (and subsequent abuse) of the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) exemption that has been in US tax code since the 1990s.
- PopAlongKid 5y agofrom the article: "The story of the tax break is in many ways the story of U.S. tax policy writ large. Congress enacts a loophole-laden law whose benefits skew toward the ultrarich. Lobbyists defeat efforts to rein it in. Then creative tax specialists at law, accounting and Wall Street firms transform it into something far more generous than what lawmakers had contemplated." This is so true, and deserves to be more widely known.
- known 5y ago