Chapter 1647

Then, boss Jia gave Zhu Qiushui a popular science about the inheritance tax in the United States.

It is said that the United States is a paradise for the rich, but there are also places where the rich are very dissatisfied, which is the inheritance tax.

The inheritance tax in the United States is notoriously huge.

The threshold is US $10000. Any inheritance exceeding US $10000 needs to pay tax, and the tax rate is as high as 18%.

After that, with the increase of the number of estates, the last estate exceeding $2.5 million needs to be paid at the tax rate of 50%.

In other words, if Bill Gates really leaves his $200 billion stock to his son, Bill Gates's son will have to pay up to $100 billion in taxes!

Some people may think it's OK. After all, there is still a legacy of $100 billion.

But the problem is that there is another rule for inheritance in the United States, that is, taxes must be paid before inheritance... The taxes must also be cash, not fixed assets or financial assets.

Take our bill gates as an example. If his son wants to inherit the $200 billion, he must pay $100 billion in cash to the US tax authorities before inheriting. Only after paying this cash can he inherit normally.

But the problem is that before paying the money, the $200 billion stock cannot be handed over to Bill Gates' son. In other words, Bill Gates' son can't rely on selling the $200 billion stock to pay taxes, but has to rely on his ability to get $100 billion.

This is too NIMA.

However, we must praise the commercial talent of Americans here. Later, many commercial institutions launched legacy financial services. If you don't have the money to pay inheritance tax, commercial institutions can pay this huge fee instead of you first.

After the inheritance is handed over, commercial institutions will charge 10% - 20% of the amount in return. See if this is very perfect!

After Bill Gates spent $200 billion, now that he has his own son, there is only $90 billion left. No one can suffer!

Anyway, the rich in the United States are disgusted by this inheritance law, but this law has been supported by all American citizens. After all, most American citizens do not need to pay inheritance tax, because they don't have a $10000 inheritance for their future generations.

It makes sense that most Americans leave their children far more debt than inheritance.

They can't wait for the assets of the rich to be taxed, so the rich can't change the law at all. Whoever dares to change it won't want votes.

Of course, the United States is a country full of wisdom. Since it is impossible to go straight, what about saving the country by curve?

Don't say, that's really good.

So charitable funds have become the target of these rich people.

At first, the legal management of charitable funds was in good faith. In order to attract more rich people to donate, and to make charitable funds generate money and have more money to support the poor, the United States has given charitable funds considerable freedom and management authority, as well as tax concessions.

After all kinds of regular funds or fund escrow have been targeted by the tax bureau and regulations have been set, charitable funds have escaped a disaster. The inheritance of shares of charitable funds does not need any tax rate. Heirs can directly inherit the whole charitable funds without paying any price, and they don't even have to pay a dime of tax.

Therefore, this naturally became the best white gloves for the rich, and when the first batch of rich experienced this routine, they found that the way of charitable fund inheritance was even more perfect than the traditional way of inheritance.

First, the estate tax can be completely avoided.

Secondly, the operation and management of charitable funds can obtain more preferential tax rates in operation and finance.

Finally, the charitable foundation is especially loved by the ordinary people because of its title of charity, which will not be criticized by any public opinion. Once the rich announced that they would donate all their funds to the charity foundation, they could also become the object of praise from people all over the world. It was so wonderful that they could hardly find any shortcomings.

At that time, at most, you can hypocritically take out some money for activities, and then find a bunch of reporters to take photos and report. Naturally, you will gain both fame and wealth!

Later, the American tax department also found the fishiness. When they wanted to make rules for charitable funds, they found that the American rich at this time were not the American rich in 1920.

The American rich in 1920 were still afraid of the power of the country, but after 1950, with Roosevelt's policies, although the country was saved, it was also controlled by several large consortia. These people used the two party system of the United States to have very terrible power in politics.

Any politician who dares to change the inheritance policy again will be threatened and resisted by all kinds, even the commander-in-chief of the United States.

For example, the famous commander of Kendy, when he was just preparing to amend the inheritance law, directly GG. After that, no one dared to touch this taboo.

So Bill Gates seems to have donated all his assets and become a saint, but in fact, when he observes it, he will find that the American media are not so shocked, and the praise of many media is only perfunctory and routine.

Because the American media know the routine.

Only the media of other countries, especially the Chinese media, are silly and sweet when they see the world. It's ridiculous to think that Bill Gates is really a saint.

Some people may refute boss Jia. Even if this routine really exists, we can't deny that Bill Gates is not a saint. What if he really is?

The answer to this can be found in the report of Bill Gates's charitable foundation.

According to the financial report released by the Bill Gates charitable foundation in 2018, the foundation spent a total of $10 billion on various charities in 20 years, and then balara listed a lot of charitable projects.

Let's not say whether there is something fishy in these charity projects. The $10 billion seems very huge, but the Bill Gates Charity Foundation has more than $300 billion.

In addition to Bill Gates' own donation, the rich in the United States also like to donate to the foundation. Anyway, the people who manage the foundation are their own people.

For example, Soros donated all his personal assets to the foundation.

However, such a large foundation has only spent $10 billion on charity in 20 years, which is too little... According to some data surveys, the foundation has made more than $50 billion in 20 years.

Finally, the $10 billion includes the salaries of all the staff of the foundation, including Bill Gates's son, who can get paid in the foundation!!