On March 28th, the Biden Administration issued a 250-page General Explanation of the administration’s fiscal year 2023 revenue proposals. Click this link the view the “Green Book” PDF. Well-advised taxpayers are already considering actions to take before these new proposals would become effective. Besides increasing the corporate income tax rate to 28% and long-term capital
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Topline Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) said Tuesday he would not support President Joe Biden’s proposed “minimum tax on billionaires,” which would impose a 20% minimum tax on households worth over $100 million and would target unrealized gains, the second time in five months Manchin has opposed the administration’s efforts to realize a dramatic targeted tax
Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about how early retirement benefits can affect spousal benefits taken after full retirement age, whether earning $2 over the limit can disrupt disability benefits and being able to receive retirement benefits after survivor’s benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
President Biden’s addiction to economy-killing taxes remains intense, as a new idea in his proposed budget unfortunately confirms. Biden’s latest scheme would hit rich people with a 20% minimum tax on both income and unrealized capital gains. Democrats figure that since the well-to-do aren’t popular, the tax idea would give beleaguered Democratic candidates a winning
Topline President Joe Biden on Monday released a $5.8 trillion budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year packed with Democratic legislative priorities such as affordable housing and healthcare, in addition to what could be the nation’s first tax targeting billionaire wealth—setting the stage for months of negotiations as Congress works to approve a final spending
The IRS just recently picked up a win in its war on syndicated conservation easement (SCE) deductions. The Sixth Circuit confirmed the full Tax Court decision written by Judge Lauber in Oakbrook Land Holdings. The issue was about what terms are required to make an easement “perpetual”. Before getting into the pretty arcane points Judge
Instead of fretting about falling markets, consider whether they are an opportunity to convert all or part of a traditional IRA or 401(k) plan to a Roth IRA. Lower investment prices can reduce the cost of converting assets into tax-free Roth IRA assets. When all or part of a traditional IRA or 401(k) is converted
Tax Notes contributing editors Robert Goulder and Joseph J. Thorndike discuss whether inflation is a tax, all in five minutes. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Robert Goulder: Once upon a time, inflation was the scourge of our national economy, but that was way back in the 1970s. Since then, we’ve had
Although gasoline prices get most of the attention in reporting on inflation, there’s another element that’s pushed the numbers up—soaring rents for housing. And even if rent increases slow down, our affordable housing crisis will continue due to the lack of housing supply and persistent low incomes. The data are grim. The national real estate
A funny thing happened to the trillions of dollars of proposed tax increases on corporations and high-income households that were high on the agendas of President Biden and congressional Democrats just a year ago: They seem to have, at least for now, fallen into a deep Capitol Hill hole. And they’ve been replaced by, of