• Flow-through shares/limited partnerships. Certain companies, such as mining or oil drilling often take several years before they can generate positive income, while many of them will go under. This normally deters common investors who demand quick, or at least safe, returns. To encourage the investment, the US government allows the exploration costs of the company to be distributed to shareholders as tax deductions (not to be confused with tax credits). Investors are rewarded by 1) the near instant tax savings 2) the potential massive gains if the company discovers gold or oil. In US terminology, these entities are given the generic title of “limited partnership” and in the past they may have simply been called a “tax shelter”, being an archetypical tax shelter. However the IRS limited the popularity of these plans by allowing the losses to only offset passive (investment) income as opposed to earned income.

• Retirement plan. In order to reduce burden of the government-funded pension systems, governments may allow individuals to invest in their own pension. In the USA these sanctioned programs include Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)s. The contributed income will not be taxable today, but will be taxable when the individual retires. The advantage to these plans is that money that would have been taken out as taxes is now compounded in the account until the funds are withdrawn. With the Roth IRA and the newly introduced ([2006]) Roth 401(k), income is taxed before the contributions are made into the account but are not taxed when the funds are withdrawn. This option is preferred by those workers who expect to be in a higher tax bracket during retirement than they currently are. A similar system is available in the United Kingdom and is known as the Individual Savings Account.

Some tax shelters are questionable or even illegal:

• Offshore companies. Due to differing tax rates and legislation’s in each country, tax benefits can be exploited. Example: If Import Co. buys $1 of goods from India and sells for $3, Import Co. will pay tax on $2 of taxable income. However, tax benefits can be exploited if Import Co. is to setup an offshore subsidiary in the British Virgin Islands to buy the same goods for $1, sell the goods to Import Co. for $3 and sell it again in the domestic market for $3. This allows Import Co. to report taxable income of $0 (because it was purchased for $3 and sold for $3), thus paying no tax. While the subsidiary will have to pay tax on $2, the tax is payable to the tax authority of British Virgin Islands. Since the British Virgin Islands has a corporate tax rate of 0%, no taxes are payable.

• Financing arrangements. By paying unreasonably high interest rates to a related party, one may severely reduce the income of an investment (or even create a loss), but create a massive capital gain when one withdraws the investment. The tax benefit derives from the fact that capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than the normal investment income such as interest or dividend.

The flaws of these questionable tax shelters are usually that transactions were not reported at fair market value or the interest rate was too high or too low. In general, if the purpose of a transaction is to lower tax liabilities but otherwise have no economic value, and especially when arranged between related parties, such transactions are often viewed as unethical. The agency may re-evaluate the price, and will quickly neutralize any over tax benefits. However, such cases are difficult to prove. A soft drink from a vending machine can cost $1.00, but may also be bought in bulk for $0.25. To prove that the price is in fact unreasonable may turn out to be reasonably difficult itself.

Applied to a currency, appreciation is a rise of its value in a floating exchange rate.

In times of high inflation, appreciation of assets will be common to all balance sheet assets. In any viable modern economy, such property tends to increase in value over the years – if only because of the scarcity of usable land forces its price in a competitive situation. However, this belief has often caused speculative bubbles to arise.

There are considerable difficulties in assessing the increase in value of any particular asset. This is principally because of the variety of interpretations that can be attached to the concept of value itself, as well as the various instruments and methods used in the valuation process.

• Tax shelter offsets occur in one of three ways: depreciation (which may sometimes be accelerated), tax credits, and carryover losses which reduce tax liability charged against income from other sources. Some tax shelter benefits can be transferable, depending on the laws governing tax liability in the jurisdiction where the property is located. These can be sold to others for a cash return or other benefit.

• Equity build-up is the increase in the investor’s equity ratio as the portion of debt service payments devoted to principal accrue over time. Equity build-up counts as a positive cash flow from the asset where the debt service payment is made out of income from the property, rather than from independent income sources.

• Capital appreciation is the increase in market value of the asset over time, realized as a cash flow when the property is sold. Capital appreciation can be very unpredictable unless it is part of a development and improvement strategy. Purchase of a property for which the majority of the projected cash flows are expected from capital appreciation (prices going up) rather than other sources is considered speculation rather than investment.

Housing saving social and ecological interest to contribute to the cost savings of families of Puebla, was launched in the housing program “saving or green”, with which it is intended to realize year-end construction and delivery of at least 500 houses of this type through INFONAVIT, in coordination with the housing developer SADASI Group, said the head of the agency, Felipe de Jesus Mojarro Arroyo. The report that were given the first two houses of its kind in Puebla, Mexico, the official said that in addition to saving this type of housing technology that will allow families to purchase homes, contributing to the decline in energy expenditure and water in the state.

He said the installation of energy saving light bulbs is to reduce as much as 64 percent on energy consumption and in similar proportions, saving water is presented to the taps and showers have high pressure but low consumption, in addition to these changes the homes have solar energy mechanisms that replace traditional gas facilities.

He acknowledged that the effort undertaken by the development companies to provide this technology to homes that can be funded through INFONAVIT, must be supported by the municipal authorities to implement policy measures that force you to consider this type of construction as fundamental .

The price of this type of housing is higher by at least 11 thousand dollars, because the features it has, but ultimately those who purchase can save an average of 2 thousand 200 dollars annually in energy and water consumption, which means that in 5 years it has recouped its investment.

Puebla is the third entity in the country (after San Luis Potosí and the state of Mexico) that has this kind of development, which places it at the forefront of housing development.

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The textbooks say that things move through these phases: extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. This is called economy of materials. This system is in crisis, that is a linear system, and we live on a finite planet, and can not maintain a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

Along the way, this system interacts with societies, cultures, economies, environment. And, furthermore, it collides with limits. People living and working in this system, and some are a little more important than others, some choose a little more. Who are they?
One is the government, your job is to look for us, take care. That’s their job. Then there are corporations that are larger than the government. Of the 100 largest economies on earth now, 51 are corporations.

Extraction, here come across our first limit. We’re running out of resources, a third of the planet’s natural resources have been consumed. Exhausted.

75% of global fish stocks are in use or over-exploited.
80% of the planet’s original forests have disappeared.
Only in the Amazon jungle, we lose 2000 trees per minute. The equivalent of 7 football fields per minute.

In the next step, the raw materials go to “production”, where energy is used for mixing toxic chemicals with natural resources. These toxic build up in the food chain and concentrate on our own bodies.

After these natural resources have been converted into products, go to “distribution”, meaning “to sell these contaminated stuff as fast as possible”

This leads to consumption, the heart of the system, the engine that drives it. We’ve become a nation of consumers. Shop and shop and shop. Maintain the flow of materials. The average person in the United States now consumes twice as much as was consumed 50 years ago.

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You see that this is a system in crisis. From climate change to descending levels of happiness, simply does not work. Because what we really need is to change our attitude of “disposable.” Remember that this attitude does not happen spontaneously. It was created by people. And we too are people. Let’s create something new.

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