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Re:The ETF Tax Dodge by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:03PM (#19536677)
> They care about this so much that if you owe a lot in taxes, you actually have to pay them in quarterly installments, so the Feds don’t have to wait a whole year to get your money.

That's really not about interest, but about credit risk. If a tax payer goes broke, they don't want to lose a whole year of taxes.

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Re:The ETF Tax Dodge by wutbrodo on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:10PM (#19537608)
The time value of money (and thus interest) is in part by driven by the risk of the future payout not happening, so these aren't really separate phenomena.
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Re:The ETF Tax Dodge by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:44AM (#19542019)
But the interest the state is paying is not driven very much by the credit risk from individual tax payers.
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