Deferring tax dollars from the needy is a serious issue, not to be diluted by mawkish sentimentality from old Dodgers fans who have been having a temper tantrum since 1957.
Before we get to them, the rules involve some alphabet soup, so just as a refresher: Flexible spending arrangements, or F.S.A.'s, help you save money by letting you defer pretax dollars to pay for expenses that aren't covered by your health insurance plan, like co-payments and coinsurance, as well as dental and vision costs.
We see far too many long term opportunities in various markets to defer investment dollars from any of the strategies that we discussed earlier to a few select firms that may or may not benefit from this shift.
If it was not tax dollars, deferred even as they were, that added a trillion dollars to the U.S. deficit prior to Jan . 20 , 2009then Grassley assumes, and the press assumes, that the public is as it was eight years ago, complacent, uninvolved and disinterested.
And, as recently as last year, a debt restructuring was nearly concluded that would have deferred billions of dollars of debt payments and opened the way to new borrowing.
Among those being discussed are an end to tax subsidies for yachts or vacation homes, tighter rules concerning tax-deferred dollars being placed in IRAs, and a ban preventing companies from deducting expenses when they send jobs overseas.
The firm's partners are owed tens of millions of dollars in deferred compensation.
Mr. Fletcher said the income reported on his tax returns was not a true picture of his earnings, and that he had millions of dollars in deferred compensation.
But on the hot topic of the declining dollar, Greenspan deferred to the U.S. Treasury.
Some hedge fund managers are deferring billions of dollars offshore, where the money is compounding tax- free.
