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[–] 7 points 5 months ago*

Prepare to pay it or avoid the tax?

Edit: no shock to anyone it's how to avoid paying the tax. Use an airport outside the scope of the tex, register the plane outside the state, or charter a flight so you don't directly pay it.

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    [–] 120 points 5 months ago

    Oh no my private... Wait, I don't have a jet. And if I did, I could afford a tax.

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  • [–] 92 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    This whole article just reads like a deaf man who can’t hear the woosh of a falling guillotine blade.

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  • [–] 71 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The author wanted to make Mamdani's policies sound bad, but all I could think after each paragraph was "hell yeah".

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Right? Here's a good example:

    If you own an apartment in New York and don’t live there full-time, you’re taxed. If your heirs inherit assets in New York, they’re taxed at thresholds that now reach the upper middle class. The logical extension of this trajectory — and the question the entire private aviation industry should be asking — is: what about the $70 million jet you landed at Teterboro this morning?

    It's very interesting to see just how out of touch they are. You can even see him trying to appeal to non-billionaires by making it sound like he actually gives a fuck about them. "Omg, you're inheriting a million dollar property? How will you handle the taxes?!? 😱" Then quickly pivots to a more familiar scenario to people in his echelon: "what if I have to pay a fair tax on this ridiculous lifestyle I'm living?!?

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  • [+] -11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    its not the rich who live a ridiculous lifestyle. It you. Quit your job. Walk away. You don't need it.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    This is such a funny thing to say lmao, if it's bait then it needs to be in a museum. Bravo Vince

    "You're ridiculous for participating in the society you were raised in, how dare you. You need to run out into the woods like Ted Kaczynski, never pay taxes again, and survive like the kid from Hatchet. Oh? You have people that you care about? Just forget about them, duh. Oh? I'm a hypocrite because I'm typing this on a device that was obtained through said 'ridiculous lifestyle'? Nah, false equivalence. Just trust me, I'm basically Siddhartha Gautama. All I need is Lemmy."

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  • [–] 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no, not my private jet…

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    If he pays his fair share of taxes... He would likely still own everything he owns but wouldn't have as many 0's adorning the big important number in his bank account. Just devestating to see someone forced to pay their fair share, lol

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago

    Good. Great, even. Fuck these rich asshole climate criminals.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Lmao, exactly. Mamdani can tax all of my private jets at 100%* for all I care, and I’m not even in NY!

    *I of course am a normal person, not a bloodsucking billionaire or whatever, and own 0 private jets, nor will I ever own one.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago

    When my butler read this to me, I couldn't contain my outrage.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I both love and hate it when Fortune forgets that The Poors can read their garbage too 😄

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago

    Fuck you and your private jet

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Nice of him to include tax evasion strategies right in the communique to his socioeconomic classmates.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago*

    This is tax avoidance, not tax evasion. The goal is to avoid owing taxes, not to avoid paying taxes owed.

    To the lowly taxpayer, it all looks the same, that they refuse to pay their fair share, but legally there's a pretty big difference.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago

    No friend of mine owns a private jet. Tax them out of existence

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Good.

    I'm stuck using paper straws all so some cunt can fly in private luxury?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Just do it and shut up. Talk about something else. How are the bees doing this season?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Better! They figured out a vaccine for the virus that has been causing the majority of bee colony collapse and we’ve been seeing huge turnarounds. They treated them in my area and they have been flourishing this year, it’s been a huge relief to see them in healthy numbers again.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    No fucking way, that’s badass! That brings me pure joy. Thank you for sharing that. Going to look for an article that covers this, curious how certain areas are recovering. Here in New York there’s a decent size group who been working really hard supporting the bees.

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    Go ahead. Tax every one I have.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Wait are people at fortune mad and scared?

    That’s my fetish.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago

    Truly baffling to read just how disconnected some people are.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago

    99% of the people think "good!". The other 1% have the power to make this go away.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    I almost fainted, then re-read the header and saw shey will tax my jet, so I got relief. I thought they would be taxing my yatch!

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    They can take my private jet from my cold dead hands..... once I buy one.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Mamdami should be president

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    They are scared. Good.

    What Smart Operators Are Doing Now

    • Charter, don’t own — for New York trips. Ownership-based taxes require an owner. Charter clients flying on a per-trip basis have structural insulation from registration, basing, and ownership surcharges.
    • Move your aircraft out of New York. If your aircraft is currently based or registered in New York State, that is your single largest exposure point. Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire are the most common rebasing destinations. Act before the rule is written.
    • Know your airports. Teterboro (TEB) remains operationally superior but are Port Authority facilities and therefore in scope. Westchester (HPN) is the most insulated option available.
    • Watch Albany, not just City Hall. Mamdani’s ability to implement airport-level taxes requires coordination with Governor Hochul and the New Jersey governor’s office. Monitor state budget negotiations closely.

    This article really is written for the 1%.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    This makes me wonder why they would even have a 'magazine' that ultimately caters to such a small portion of people, surely they dont make money from ad revenue from people who dont really spend money the way we do?

    Wouldnt they be better off having a highly exclusive member-only news site tailored for the top 5% which is subscription based and they just charge some bullshit price thats completely immaterial to their clients (but prohibitive to anyone un-intened) like $200k per year for access.

    Having said this i also have no idea if this is already a thing, there literally could be something of this calibre where they have articles on the best tax havens and ads for private jets while us poors would never even know of their existence.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    We need to find cheap and easy ways for everyday people to build MANPAD's explicitly to shoot down private jets. Make it so that pilots won't want to fly them, and the rich will be too scared

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Not my private jet!! How could he !?!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    oh no, not my jet.

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    [–] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Ahh yes. The “Lemmy” users with private jets.

    Huge cross-over in that Venn diagram 🙄

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