Getty If you made a purchase on the internet yesterday, you might have noticed something different: sales tax. Changes in sales tax compliance laws for remote sellers and marketplace in more than a dozen states kicked in beginning October 1, 2019. More than 40 states have tweaked their sales tax laws since a 2018 Supreme Court
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Where are we to turn for high, safe dividends these days? Certainly not 10-Year Treasuries, unless you think you can scrape by on their 1.7% yields. I’ll save you the calculation: you can’t, because that yield matches the inflation rate to the decimal point. Your “true” income? $0. The S&P 500 isn’t much better: for
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses when the earnings test comes into effect, restricting an application to spousal benefits only online, what to do if a payee withheld benefits from the beneficiary, filing retroactively and
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses how suspended retirement benefits are reinstated at 70, earnings test exempt amounts, survivor benefits and remarriage, whether rental income counts as wages or salary and how checks are handled
Getty It turns out that there is such a thing as too much SALT. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken has dismissed a lawsuit filed by four states to strike down the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The lawsuit was filed in July of
Senator Elizabeth Warren. BlueMountain Capital Management, H.I.G. Capital, American Securities, Apax Partners, and Platinum Equity received a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asking them to provide disclosure documents and information required in Sections 501 and 503 of the Stop Wall Street Looting Act. Additionally, the
Democrats are focused on passing the Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA), and for good reason. If passed, the WFTRA would provide about $85 billion in benefits to about 48 million households in 2019. Rather than making the false choice between supporting work with the earned income tax credit (EITC) or supporting children with the child tax credit (CTC), the
Judge J. Paul Oetken presides in th e U.S. Southern District of New York Daniel… [+] Patrick Moynihan Courthouse in New York, U.S.. Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP A U.S. district judge today dismissed a lawsuit brought by Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and New York against the big tax cut signed into
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses an audience on the campus of… [+] the University of Chapel Hill during a campaign rally on September 19, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sanders spoke to college students about working people’s rights, including fair wages and health care. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images) Getty
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A fast way to decumulate your assets, which is not recommended for the 99.9% Stephen Chen You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. Tennessee Williams Is Decumulation Even A Word? Although most of us have been raised to focus on the