November 4, 2009

How To Turn Your Children Into Lifelong Tax Cutters

Keith Hennessey, Keith Hennessey

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Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by kbh in featured, taxes  

My former White House colleague Tevi Troy suggested the following method for turning children into lifelong tax cutters.

I figure it will take maybe two years of this to turn them into lifelong tax cutters.

For most kids, this is probably the first income they have earned through their own labor.  Maybe it's better they learn about taxes now, rather than 10-15 years from now when they first ask "Who the h*** is FICA?"

You might see a cheating dynamic in future years, in which your Halloween taxpayers try to hide some of their income from the...

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