Taxes

Policy experts and governments around the world are deeply dissatisfied with the way multinational corporations are taxed, especially big tech companies. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed what it hopes will be a two-pronged solution: A global minimum corporate income tax and a tax based on where firms sell their products.

Many people could achieve a couple of retirement finance goals by adding a qualified longevity annuity contract (QLAC) to their IRAs. QLACs were created in regulations issued by the IRS in 2014. They’re an IRS-approved way to secure a lifetime stream of income from your IRA, ensuring you never run out of income during retirement.

Law professors Kathleen DeLaney Thomas and Erin Scharff have given us a great tour of tax misinformation in the digital age with Fake News and the Tax Law (available on SSRN), It has never been easier to get accurate tax information than it is now. Unfortunately misinformation is even easier. You don’t have to look

As the year winds down, Congress will need to decide what to do on several tax fronts, including whether to extend more favorable treatment of business research and development investments and to increase benefits for families with children. To better understand what’s at stake, we reviewed both tax breaks and compared their fiscal costs. As

Could things get worse for California’s workers? The bad news is the Golden State just received another ding when it comes to jobs. The news comes on top of the disastrous AB5 law that restricts many people from working as independent contracts if they reside in the state. Its meant that many companies from around

Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about whether there really are “maximum” retirement benefit rates, whether applying for spousal benefits would have been advantageous and how the earnings test works. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc. See more Ask Larry answers

Social Security is supposed to be inflation-proof. It’s anything but. Today’s the day tens of millions of retirees learn about their annual Social Security “bonus.” I’m referring to the system’s COLA (Cost-of-Living Adjustment), which, as announced on Thursday, will raise recipients’ benefits by 8.7% starting with checks received in January. The COLA is supposed to

Congress has been making it harder and harder to deduct charitable contributions. Know the latest rules so the IRS won’t be able to deny tax breaks for your charitable donations. The increase in the standard deduction in the 2017 tax law means you have to give more to receive a tax break. You deduct charitable

In February 2022 the IRS issued proposed regulations that surprised a lot of tax advisors and indicated a number of heirs incurred penalties for not taking actions they didn’t know about. In early October the IRS said it would waive those penalties for 2021 and 2022. The proposed regulations were issued under the Setting Every

In Schweizer v. Comm’r TC Memo 2022-102, the Tax Court held that the denial of a $600,000 charitable deduction for the donation of a work of art was reasonable because the tax return included an incomplete Form 8283 as well as the taxpayer’s reliance, and lack of care and ordinary prudence, on a professionally prepared