Tax planning

Top aides to the president are reaching out to senators to convey his enthusiasm for the agreement, a White House official said.

The $579 billion infrastructure deal is a win, yet the bipartisan plan faces hurdles in Congress that reflect challenges to the president's broader economic agenda.

The cost of the expenditures would be offset by a variety of revenue-raising provisions, including stronger enforcement of tax collections from the wealthy.

Taxing jurisdictions are less anxious about revenue — but they’ll be more focused on sales tax than before.

A combination of high valuations on companies and potentially higher taxes in the future is proving to be a potent motivator for selling private companies.

Tax experts dissent the Biden budget proposal in search of planning opportunities.

Clients could end up having to pay back the money next filing season.

The White House reiterated its opposition to indexing the gasoline tax to inflation to help pay for an infrastructure plan.

The Treasury secretary suggested that if Congress were to pass a capital-gains tax hike effective starting in April 2021, that wouldn’t count as a retroactive increase.

Everlance launches a business reimbursement solution, Corvee debuts a tax planning webinar series, and SignEasy integrates e-signatures with Google Sheets.

Representative Tom Suozzi, one of the leaders in Congress behind the push for an expansion of the state and local tax deduction, is considering proposing a one-time wealth tax on the richest Americans.

The debate over how to pay for the nation’s roads, bridges and transit systems is leading some normally anti-tax Republicans to embrace higher levies on motorists.

The proposal calls for $579 billion in net new spending beyond outlays that Congress was already expected to enact.

Republican and Democratic senators said they’re open to considering the first change in the national gasoline tax since 1993 to help fund a bipartisan infrastructure spending package.

The proposed changes are worrying investors and their tax advisors, especially the possibility of making them retroactive.

An in-depth look at the Biden administration's tax plans for the next year.

Even with a 15-year window to pay taxes, a near-doubling of the capital gains rate and the elimination of the step-up in basis loophole will make a sale expensive.

Financial planning clients need to start preparing for potential legislative upheavals now.

"Inheritors are going to get killed" under the White House’s proposal to put the brakes on tax-free intergenerational transfers of wealth.

The administration is looking for big money from a higher corporate tax rate and better IRS enforcement.