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Ex-FPA prez to Congress: Clients looking to earn less to avoid tax hit

Johannessen says proposed 39.6% top marginal rate spooking more-affluent filers

Clients have begun to ask how they can earn less from work so that their income levels won't be pushed to a higher tax bracket, a financial planner told a congressional hearing today in Washington.

“For the first time in my 20 or so years, folks actually were asking what they could do to minimize

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