In part two of Tax Notes’ three-part series: Paying for the Pandemic, watch William G. Gale, co-director of Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, make a case for raising revenue with a progressive value-added tax. Here are a few highlights… On forecasting the GDP ratio William G. Gale: The estimates that we did [in my article] involve this scenario called
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Getty Will he or won’t he? That’s the question on the minds of taxpayers and tax professionals alike as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continues to mull extending the tax filing deadline for 2020. As it currently stands, the 2019 tax filing deadline remains July 15, 2020. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) received and processed
Department of Justice sign, Washington DC. Getty On June 19, 2020, the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice filed a Petition To Enforce Summons against the Delaware Department Of Insurance, which seeks testimony and certain documents relating to Artex Risk Solutions, Inc. and Tribeca Strategic Advisors, LLC in connection with its promoter audits
TOPLINE President Trump has told his aides that he supports sending another stimulus payment directly to Americans, the Washington Post reports, even though some officials in his administration aren’t on board—the revelation comes as lawmakers disagree on how to approach the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters
Paper with Required Minimum Distributions RMD on a table Getty Marty Davidoff of PragerMetis has given me a heads up to accommodations the IRS is making to follow through on the spirit of some of the relief that Congress has given taxpayers under the CARES Act and the SECURE Act. This is about required minimum
TOPLINE The market finished higher on Tuesday—with the Nasdaq hitting a new record high—after stocks recovered from overnight losses when White House trade adviser Peter Navarro walked back his earlier comments that the U.S.-China trade deal is “over.” Big tech stocks led the market higher on Tuesday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images KEY FACTS The Dow Jones
High income households will be facing two different IRS enforcement initiatives when the IRS reopens on July 15. First, the IRS announced an effort to get high-income non-filers to come in and file tax returns. Second, the IRS announced it is preparing to examine “several hundred” high-income households that have either a related pass-through entity
Getty If you follow me on Twitter, you’d know that our law firm didn’t take out a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. But if we had, you might soon know the details – down to how much money we had received: Treasury and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have agreed with the bipartisan leaders of the U.S.
A mini online shopping cart filled with packages on a laptop. Getty Tax Notes legal reporter Jennifer McLoughlin interviews Richard Cram, director of the Multistate Tax Commission’s National Nexus Program, on the state of the sales tax landscape two years after the Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. McLoughlin moderates a discussion between Bradley
For those who pay estimated taxes, 2020 presents special issues and potential hardships. Getty Tax Day 2020 is July 15, and for some taxpayers it could be a financial nightmare. Covid-19 prompted the IRS to delay the usual April 15 federal tax-return deadline to July 15, but it isn’t just 2019 tax returns that are