Tax planning

Moderates are echoing Senator Joe Manchin’s complaint about not knowing the full cost and economic impact of the Biden adminstration's plans.

That Rothko, Basquiat or Banksy hanging in the front hall may be a great way to get a tax break.

The American Institute of CPAs sent a letter to Congress’s tax-writing committees asking lawmakers to reconsider the rules around the corporate minimum tax rate that’s currently part of the reconciliation bill now under consideration.

The outline of the tax and spending bill provided a breakthrough after a long standoff between moderate senators and progressive Democrats.

A new round of haggling started, as they worked to fill in details and deal with last-minute attempts to restore priorities that had been left out.

Influential lawmakers still want various tax provisions in the bill.

The Section 179D incentive would jump from $1.80 per square foot for efficiency improvements to a sliding scale between $2.50 and $5.

As Congress wrangles, advisors are struggling to figure out how to help clients.

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a crucial swing vote for Democrats, has given the Biden administration a list of specific tax policies she will support in order to raise revenue for the social spending plan Democrats hope to pass this year.

The president’s tax agenda, crafted by experts who worked on the proposals for years and wrote books about their ideas, is getting a wholesale revamp as Democrats battle to find a program their caucus can unite behind.

The former Treasury secretary is concerned about the potential knock-on effects of a proposed levy on the super-wealthy.

Senate Democrats detailed their proposed levy on the ultra-wealthy, a new and logistically risky approach to taxation.

Some House lawmakers raised doubts about the terms of the deal and whether differences could be resolved in the next few days.

The Senate Republican leader ridiculed a tax plan targeting the unrealized capital gains of the ultra wealthy as a “harebrained scheme.”

A failure to use tax data may represent a major missed opportunity, however.

Hikes in the top tax rates are off the table, although a “billionaire’s tax” on unrealized capital gains is under discussion.

There is increased momentum for an income tax on $1 billion or more in annual income, or three consecutive years of $100 million or more in income.

The NCAA began allowing university athletes to earn money from their name, image and likeness this summer, and now they could find themselves owing taxes for the first time in their lives.

The Arizona Democrat — who has opposed raising rates on corporations and individuals — will back ways of increasing revenue from domestic corporations, global companies, high net-worth individuals and through tax enforcement.

President Joe Biden’s acknowledgement that he doesn’t have sufficient Senate Democratic backing for his proposed increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate gives fresh impetus to efforts by negotiators to find alternative revenue sources for a sweeping social-spending bill.