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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: tax free funds & 33% tax bracket ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.164034.10495@unocal.com>
- Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News)
- Organization: Unocal Corporation
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:40:34 GMT
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- In article <1elkm7INN3q0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:
- >
- >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 ?
- >
-
- Market forces determine differential in yield. Generally these trend toward
- the highest tax brackets. Take money market funds for example.
- Most tax frees are yielding 2.5% and taxables 3.2%. If you are in the 28%+
- bracket, these are equivalent. If you are in the 15% bracket then you'd
- make more money investing in the taxable.
-