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- From: steve@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Steve Stuart)
- Subject: Re: tax free funds & 33% tax bracket ?
- In-Reply-To: jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu's message of 21 Nov 1992 15:30:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <STEVE.92Nov22141932@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Sender: steve@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Steve Stuart)
- Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation, Department of Chemistry,
- Columbia University
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:19:32 GMT
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- In article <1elkm7INN3q0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:
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- >why is a tax free bonds, or mutual funds always related to somebody
- >with 33% tax bracket ? why ? can't somebody with 20% tax bracket
- >invest in tax free bonds ? is there something I'm missing ?
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- There's nothing to stop people in lower tax brackets from investing in
- tax-free bonds - it's just not as smart for them as it is for those in
- the highest tax brackets. To match a 5% taxable yield, if you're in
- the 20% tax bracket, you could settle for a 4% tax-free yield. But
- someone in a 33% tax bracket would be happy with just a 3.33% tax-free
- yield. So that group of people is going to bid the price of this
- hypothetical tax-free bond up to where it will yield 3.33%, at which
- point it will be equivalent to the 5% taxable investment. Those in
- the 20% tax bracket can't afford to pay these prices, so the price is
- set by the group with the highest tax bracket. Assuming, of course,
- that there are enough investors in that tax bracket to buy all the
- bonds that are offered.
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- --
- -Steve
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