来源:雪球App,作者: 王冠亚,(https://xueqiu.com/4525540121/305688111)
巴菲特致股东的信原文精读Day475:
原文:For tax-paying investors like you and me, the picture has been far worse. During the same 47-year period, continuous rolling of U.S. Treasury bills produced 5.7% annually. That sounds satisfactory. But if an individual investor paid personal income taxes at a rate averaging 25%, this 5.7% return would have yielded nothing in the way of real income. This investor’s visible income tax would have stripped him of 1.4 points of the stated yield, and the invisible inflation tax would have devoured the remaining 4.3 points. It’s noteworthy that the implicit inflation “tax” was more than triple the explicit income tax that our investor probably thought of as his main burden. “In God We Trust” may be imprinted on our currency, but the hand that activates our government’s printing press has been all too human.(2011)
释义:1.“stripped”意为“剥夺”;“devoured”意为“吞噬”;
2.“implicit”意为“隐性的”;“explicit”意为“显性的”。
精译:对于像你我这样须纳税的投资者来说,情况要糟糕得多。在同一时期(1965~2012年),美国国库券的复合年化回报率为5.7%。这听起来似乎还不错。但如果个人投资者以平均25%的税率缴纳个人所得税,那么5.7%的回报率将不会产生任何实际收入。有形的个人所得税将剥夺这位投资者1.4个百分点的法定收益率,无形的通货膨胀税将吞噬其余4.3个百分点的收益率。值得注意的是,我们的投资者可能认为显性所得税才是他的主要负担,其实隐性通胀“税”是显性所得税的三倍多。“我们信仰上帝”可能印在我们的货币上,但激活我们政府印刷机的手则完全体现的是人性。(2011年)
心得:假设一位投资者买入收益率为5.7%的美国国库券,在缴纳25%的个人所得税后,获得的年化回报率为4.3%;再扣除通货膨胀的影响后,实际的购买力没有任何增长。大多数投资者视有形的个人所得税为投资的主要负担,其实无形的通货膨胀“税”的负担要更重。当且仅当我们的收益率高于通胀率的时候,购买力才会得到增强,这也是投资的意义。
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