Tax Base
Categories: Tax, Accounting
You're the mayor of a town with 5,000 people in it. A French company called Belle Fromage opens a cheese factory on the outskirts of town, specializing in the production of an especially pungent form of Limburger. A lot of your residents move away. A few months later, only 3,500 people remain.
Your tax base just dropped from 5,000 to 3,500. It will be a lot harder to raise the money for the community miniature golf course you had planned. There are 1,500 fewer people you can tax.
The term "tax base" refers to the total amount of assets a government has in its jurisidiction with which it can draw revenue. It's not the amount the government actually taxes; it doesn't equal total government revenues. It's the full pie from which the government takes its slice.
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Finance allah shmoop What is tax basis Well your basis
is your cost Your costs for assessing how much you
owe when the tax man coming you bought a thousand
shares of whatever dot com at twelve bucks a share
in its eye po and huzzah Three years later the
stock is at thirty You decide whatever dot com is
now passe because a kardashians said so it'll be over
taken by whenever dot com and you want to sell
So you dio and you live in a thirty percent
marginal tax blue state And that is your federal tax
rates in twenty percent But then you add in ten
percent for state taxes and whatever's left for obamacare and
you pay about thirty percent tax on your gains Well
you paid twelve grand to buy the stock and after
the sale you took in thirty grand when you sold
it for a gain of eighteen thousand dollars Your tax
basis on those shares is twelve grand so you pay
thirty percent tax on the eighteen grand of gain or
fifty four hundred dollars to net from the sale of
thirty thousand dollars worth of stock How much Yeah twenty
Four thousand six hundred dollars He fancy math Had you
just gotten those shares free I'ii they were gifted to
you and you had no tax basis or a tax
basis of zero dollars a share Well then your gain
would have been from zero to thirty grand or a
gain of thirty thousand dollars to then be taxed at
thirty percent or nine grand in taxes to net just
twenty one thousand dollars after the sale So having ah
high tax basis or at least being able teo point
toe one saves you money when the tax man coming
and well that's pretty much it alright he's gone Now
you can all come out Come on it's Okay it's 00:01:53.698 --> [endTime] safe