President Joe Biden speaks during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taxes may soon be going up for the wealthy. President Joe Biden aims to fund expanded education, child care, paid leave and other reforms by collecting more tax revenue from Americans who make […]
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has revised its ethics standards to safeguard auditor independence when providing non-assurance services and the resulting fees paid by audit clients. The revisions affect the Non-Assurance Services (NAS) and fee-related provisions of the International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including International Independence Standards). They’re aimed at strengthening the guardrails around auditor independence […]
Here’s the most important thing to know about SPAM text messages. Don’t respond. Not in any way. We all know about SPAM text messages. In short, they are messages from some entity pretending to be something it isn’t. We’ve all gotten these messages: You’ve won! Your package delivery is pending! The IRS has been trying to reach you! You have […]
Inheritance tax dates to the Roman Empire, which collected 5 percent of inherited property to pay soldiers’ pensions. Today, the practice is widespread. The majority of European countries covered in today’s map currently levy estate, inheritance, or gift taxes. These countries are Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the […]
President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S. April 28, 2021. Melina Mara | Reuters President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan for higher taxes on inherited homes to help fund the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. The proposal would tax inherited property gains at death, targeting generational wealth transfers. But […]
As part of President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan (AFP), the White House yesterday proposed two major tax increases on accumulated wealth, adding to a 61 percent tax on the wealth of high-earning taxpayers. First, the American Families Plan would tax unrealized capital gains at death for unrealized capital gains worth over $1 million. Currently, long-term capital gains of high earners […]
President Biden’s American Families Plan would provide tax credits for families and low-income workers, but eliminate a popular tax break for estates and raise taxes on capital gains. The administration unveiled the proposals on Wednesday ahead of Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night (see story). The plan would extend the Child Tax Credit increases of […]
The individual income tax is one of the most significant sources of revenue for state and local governments. In fiscal year 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, individual income taxes generated 24.2 percent of state and local tax collections, just ahead of general sales taxes (23.3 percent). The following map shows combined state and local individual […]
FatCamera | E+ | Getty Images A temporary federal policy aimed at making health insurance more affordable for tens of millions of Americans could become permanent. Under President Joe Biden’s $1.8 trillion plan to help families and children, which he will propose to Congress on Wednesday night, he would permanently extend recently expanded premium subsidies available for private health insurance […]
Small businesses are gaining more revenue this year despite the lingering challenges from COVID-19 and reversing last year’s losses, according to a report from Intuit’s QuickBooks unit. The report examined how small and midsized businesses performed financially in different industries and geographies from March 2020 to March 2021, analyzing anonymized revenue data drawn from approximately 1 million QuickBooks Online customers. […]
The Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) has compiled tax revenue data for countries around the world—including 27 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, where tax revenue as a percent of GDP is on average 11 percentage points lower than in other regions. On average, the tax-to-GDP ratio for 26 countries (excluding Venezuela due to data availability issues) was […]
In this article ENPH Solaray Director Jonathan Fisk moves a solar panel at the solar power installation company’s Sydney facility. Jason Reed | Reuters Shares of Enphase Energy dipped more than 14% on Wednesday after the company warned about the ongoing impacts of the chip shortage. For the first quarter the company, which makes microinverters for solar systems, beat top […]
Deliberations which began well before the beginning of Louisiana’s legislative session—which has the nation’s latest start date (April 12th)—have yielded a meaningful package of tax reform proposals. Legislators aim to lower the state’s individual and corporate income tax rates, begin phasing out the capital stock tax, and bring sales tax centralization across the finish line—all goals that would improve the […]
President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Leigh Vogel | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden will formally unveil his new tax plan during his first presidential address on Wednesday that includes a key campaign promise — no one making $400,000 or less should see increased taxes. Some […]
Table of Contents Key Findings The Biden administration’s “Made in America Tax Plan” would substantially raise taxes on the activities of U.S. multinational corporations, whether these activities are located domestically or abroad. From the perspective of U.S. multinationals, the proposal would increase their federal tax liabilities by $104 billion in 2022 and $1.2 trillion over 10 years, increases of 81 […]
Grassi, a Top 100 Firm based in New York, has expanded its footprint in New Jersey by acquiring Gramkow, Carnevale, Seifert & Co., effective March 29. The deal is adding four partners to Grassi’s leadership team from GCS: Ted Carnevale, who was also appointed co-leader of the New Jersey Market, along with Francis Shovlin, Dino Rizzo and Bob Carpenter. With […]
A man looks at GameStop at 6th Avenue on February 25, 2021 in New York. John Smith | Corbis News | Getty Images GameStop‘s stock price climbed in extended trading Monday after the video game retailer said it sold 3.5 million additional shares, raising $551 million to speed up the company’s e-commerce transformation. The stock, favored by the Reddit retail trading […]
MoMo Productions | DigitalVision | Getty Images A House bill proposed Tuesday aims to make recent enhancements to the child tax credit permanent. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and gatekeeper of new tax legislation, issued a bill that would codify changes made by the recent $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The Covid relief […]
As policymakers consider tax options to boost the U.S. economy’s long-run economic growth, they should consider reforms that would increase growth the most while minimizing forgone tax revenue. Using our new book, Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, we find that providing a full and immediate deduction for business investments, as well as lowering taxes on businesses, such as […]
Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday to provide tax credits for child care, along with universal paid family and medical leave and permanent extensions of child and family tax credits. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal, D-Massachusetts, led the other Democrats on Congress’s tax-writing committee by introducing the legislation, known as the Building an Economy for Families Act. The […]