’Tis the season to crack open a cold one, and as the country is reopening, doing so at a cookout or a baseball game is back on the schedule. In the midst of summer’s usual uptick in beer sales, take a minute to discover how much of your cash is actually going toward the cost of a brew. The United […]
Robinhood will pay roughly $70 million in penalties for its systemwide outages and misleading communication and trading practices, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Wednesday. The settlement regards the technical failures Robinhood experienced in March of 2020, Robinhood’s lack of due diligence before approving customers to place options trades and purveying misleading information to customers about aspects like trading on […]
The holiday weekend is almost upon us and many are getting ready for a weekend of family and celebration. Independence Day means firing up the barbecue, setting off fireworks, enjoying cold drinks, and wearing flag paraphernalia. It also means spending big: last year, Americans spent $6.52 billion for the Fourth of July. This year, after many pandemic-related restrictions have been […]
kate_sept2004 | E+ | Getty Images If you haven’t gotten your 2020 tax refund, you are in good company. At the end of the 2021 filing season in May, the IRS had a backlog of 35 million tax returns that still needed to be manually processed, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Taxpayer Advocate, a government watchdog. […]
National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins pointed to continuing backlogs at the Internal Revenue Service and difficulty reaching telephone assistance in a report to Congress Thursday. The Taxpayer Advocate Service’s midyear report to Congress praised the IRS for its efforts in processing most tax returns and issuing most Economic Impact Payments on a timely basis despite the challenges of the pandemic, […]
A customer relationship management (CRM) manages your small business interactions with clients. The right CRM has the tools and features that include lead tracking, contact management, and other items. What is a CRM System? This software for your business guides prospects through the sales pipeline. There are different plans and packages to choose from. Sorting through CRM solutions means choosing […]
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In this article ZM 6694.T-JP Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, revealed he is fond of Zoom, saying the videoconferencing software will keep thriving even as life goes back to normal after the pandemic. “I have fallen in love with Zoom,” Munger said during an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC’s special “Buffett & Munger: A Wealth of Wisdom,” which […]
Jason York | Getty Images State lawmakers around the country are increasingly tackling the retirement-savings gap head on. Maine has become the latest jurisdiction to enact a law to require most employers that don’t offer a retirement plan to automatically enroll their workers in an individual retirement account through a state-administered program. The New York state legislature passed a bill […]
The tax proposals contained in the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2022 budget, including the American Families Plan (AFP) and American Jobs Plan (AJP), would levy $2.3 trillion in new taxes on high-income earners and businesses and provide $998 billion in refundable tax credits to low- and middle-income households, for a net tax increase of $1.3 trillion (conventionally estimated over the […]
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released guidance Tuesday giving renewable energy companies more time to develop projects that were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Treasury and the IRS offered a safe harbor last year allowing eligible renewable energy projects to be considered as satisfying the continuity requirement for claiming the production tax credit and the investment […]
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