Taxes

This week, the golf world was shocked when PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced that the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf would merge. The businesses would be combined into a single for-profit entity, including the DP World Tour (the European PGA Tour). It didn’t take long for the reactions to pour in—including from

Now that Congress has passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023, it isn’t too soon to start thinking about the mess lawmakers have created for themselves in 2025. The law grants a short-term reprieve from Congress’s self-made debt limit crisis. But it also sets up what promises to be an extraordinary round of fiscal

The economics profession and the progressive policy world is dealing with the shocking news that Bill Spriggs, Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO and former chair of the Howard University Economics Department, has passed away at the age of 68. We’ve lost a great economist and a champion for Black equality, and for all working people.

The IRS has announced that it will grant penalty relief for corporations that did not pay estimated tax in connection with the new corporate alternative minimum tax, or CAMT. Background As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Congress created the CAMT. The change, which is reflected in section 55 of the Tax Code,

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Governor Ron DeSantis recently and forcefully slapped the issue of dealing with the fearful wrongdoing of the IRS and the monstrous tax code it enforces on the campaign table. In the past he and a number of Republicans have endorsed a national sales tax as a

This opinion piece puts the transferability component of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA, P.L. 117-169) energy tax credit changes into historical context. A musical accompaniment is necessary to properly set the stage. Since readers probably shouldn’t play YouTube clips at work, we’ll have to rely on memories here. It’s 1924, and a group of young

Representatives Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Michelle Steel (R-CA) have introduced the Working Families Tax Cut Act to increase the standard deduction – which would increase the fixed amount of income exempt from taxes. This might not seem like something that would pass as standalone legislation, but it could be attached to a larger bill. At

It’s the type of job computers (even really old computers running arcane software) should be good at— “IF” a ZIP code = [some number] “THEN” [do something]. Or don’t do something. In this case, IF a ZIP code is one that is on the list as being in a California county that was affected by

A group of U.S. Representatives has introduced the American Family Act, legislation that would make the previously expanded and improved monthly child tax credit permanent. Background During Covid-19, the American Rescue Plan Act provided relief for American families through a series of payments and credits. One of those was a “super-charged” version of the child

The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (H.R. 3746) is a done deal. The federal government avoided a debt default, at least for now. Shortly before President Biden signed the legislation, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made an interesting remark. Acknowledging that the new law was a stopgap measure, he proposed a bipartisan commission to explore