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US Supreme Court Upholds Health-Care Overhaul. What Does It Mean For You? Taxes!!!

President Obama’s federal health care law requires almost everyone to be insured and ensures coverage be made available to those if they are already ill or need expensive care. The ruling clears the way for a large restructuring of the health care system and affects virtually every American. How will health care reform be paid? It will be financed in large part by tax increases on the “wealthy”.

Here is a look at some of the tax provisions in the health care law and some things to think about with respect to tax planning:

2012 Second Quarter Market Update

Stock market returns were looking pretty dismal coming into the final few trading days of the second quarter; but, the European Union Summit, the 19th such meeting in the past three years, provided some early 4th of July fireworks. The last trading day of the quarter saw domestic large capitalization stocks (S&P 500) rise 2.5%, domestic small-cap stocks increase 2.9%, emerging market stocks advance 3.4%, and developed international stocks surge 3.6%. Overall, the last trading day of the quarter saw global equity markets up 3.1%, and global bond markets up more than 0.5%.

2012 Mid-Year Global Outlook

U.S. Overview

Economy
At the beginning of this year we made the following statement with regard to the domestic economy: “We expect 2012 to be very similar to 2011. The economy might be able to ride the recent momentum for another quarter, but lacking a resolution to some of these headwinds we suspect the middle quarters will be sluggish. The fourth quarter should see an improvement in growth and employment as the November elections bring renewed hope for the economy.” We’re pretty comfortable standing by that statement.

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