Every so often I focus on what seems, from personal experience, to represent customer “support” bordering on consumer fraud. Reasonable customer service is part and parcel of what one is purchasing from our increasingly small number of mammoth retail companies. As those who read my Forbes columns know, I generally write about issues of general
Taxes
Biden is proposing to increase the highest long-term capital gains tax rate from 20% to 39.6% for those who make over 1 million dollars of income. This tax hike would negatively impact crypto whales who are sitting on large amounts of unrealized gains. How Are Cryptocurrency Capital Gains Taxed Currently? Capital gains tax is
For many organizations trading in goods, the end of this month could mark the end of the second phase of Brexit and the start of a next. In this third phase, organizations are likely to want to take the time to review how effective their import and export movements have been so far and to
Households making $1 million or more a year would receive half the benefit of repealing the $10,000 federal cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, according to new estimates by the Tax Policy Center. Seventy percent of the benefit would go to those making $500,000 or more. At the same time, 96 percent
Today’s column addresses questions about whether it’s always best to wait until full retirement age to take survivor’s benefits before switching to retirement benefits at 70, how the earnings test is applied this year and benefit amounts for disabled adult children. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and
As more and more people get Covid-19 vaccinations, it is becoming increasingly possible to return to pre-pandemic group activity—restaurants, movie theaters, baseball stadiums, concerts—and office work. So don’t assume you can work at home indefinitely. It will depend on your job, your company’s workplace culture, and your boss. During the pandemic’s height, journalists speculated that office work was dead, shifting
Topline Stocks fell sharply Thursday afternoon after a Bloomberg report that President Joe Biden is hoping to hike the capital gains rate to as much as 43.4%, sounding an alarm for investors concerned over the potential toll on trading profits. Key Facts As of 2:10 p.m. Eastern, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 368
Mayors in blue states are lining up with Democrats in Congress to pressure the White House into restoring a tax break that was significantly reduced by former President Trump’s tax reform. On Wednesday, Rep. Thomas Suozzi (N.Y.) joined officials from Albany; Columbia, S.C.; Philadelphia and San Diego to call for a repeal of the rule
New York Attorney General Letitia James has weighed in on the low-income housing tax credit Year 15 struggle. In cooperation with James E. Johnson New York City’s Corporation Counsel, she has filed an amicus brief supporting RiseBoro Community Partnership (RiseBoro) in its litigation with AIG affiliate, Sun America Housing Fund 682, over ownership and control of 35
Nearly three years after it became legal to tax all online purchases, the nation’s third-largest state is finally about to do so. On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a plan to require out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases made by Floridians. It is expected to raise an estimated $1 billion