Sentence examples for unearned capital from inspiring English sources

We see no reason why that largely unearned capital should not be tapped in order to help pay for social care.

Arguably it is, inasmuch as Britain already has a long-established principle of taxing unearned capital gains, and inasmuch as Britain is home to a fair number of people sitting on a million quid's worth of wealth simply because they were adults in, say, 1965, and bought a house for, say, £15,000.

With the election of Ronald Reagan to the U.S. presidency and the policies of high real interest rates and lower taxes on "unearned" (capital) income, income inequality in the United States jumped and then kept on rising throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, before eventually plateauing at a very high level in the naughts.

But the principle should be that all income, earned and unearned, from capital gain or sweat of brow, is taxed the same, whatever its source.

Jane Ghosh Bristol It is extraordinary that the Institute of Economic Affairs chooses to take issue with the coalition for buying votes with pensioner bonds when governments of all parties have been buying votes from the same age group for decades with never-ending house price inflation which provides much larger unearned, untaxed capital gains.

Besides dividends and interest, other sources of unearned income include capital gains, gambling winnings, alimony, Social Security payments, pensions and annuities.

She will be able to take advantage of the standard deduction, personal exemption and the American Opportunity Tax Credit to offset her $25,000 of unearned (long-term capital gains) each year.

Perhaps unearned income, and the capital from which it derived, would have been confiscated in its entirety.

In particular, the tax law makes a sharp distinction between income earned through wages and salaries, sometimes called "earned" income, on the one hand, and income from capital, or "unearned" income.

Why our government considers capital gains unearned income is a mystery to me.

Unearned income, such as capital gains and dividends, is also free of the Medicare tax, which only applies to wages.