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Decision model and analysis for investment interest expense deduction and allocation

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  • Lee, Zu-Hsu
  • Deng, Shiming
  • Lin, Beixin
  • Yang, James G.S.

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Investment income tax planning requires informed, strategic choices. One must determine the amount of qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain to be included in investment income (against which investment interest expense can be deducted). This choice also determines the residual qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain which enjoy a reduced tax rate. Another important decision is whether all or some of this interest expense should be deducted in the current year or carried forward. This paper puts forward a new approach to formulate these questions as a generalized resource allocation problem which permits analysis of the interdependence between, and the tax consequences of, the above decisions. The commonly used approach - deducting investment interest expense sooner rather than later - we consider myopic since the benefit of deferring some of the deduction is not leveraged. Presented here is a tax planning guideline (a necessary and sufficient condition for optimality) to realize a more forward-looking strategy. We also show that, for certain income structures, the tax savings by deducting a one-dollar investment interest expense may be more than the tax rate on the dollar of investment income that is offset.

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  • Lee, Zu-Hsu & Deng, Shiming & Lin, Beixin & Yang, James G.S., 2010. "Decision model and analysis for investment interest expense deduction and allocation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 200(1), pages 268-280, January.
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