President Trump said over the weekend, “If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these [payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare] and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax.” Currently, employers and employees split the 12.4% payroll tax on the first $137,700 of 2020 earnings and also split the 2.9% Medicare tax
Month: August 2020
Spencer Platt | Getty Images As earnings season wraps up, analysts are reviewing their short-term and long-term take on the stocks they cover. While some companies delivered blowout quarters (see below), other stocks are suffering as global restrictions continue. And while government-backed stimulus programs can provide some relief, the truth remains that the pandemic- and
Tenants and housing activists in Brooklyn, New York, protested in a Bushwick park on July 5. Erik McGregor | Getty Images Negotiations over the next coronavirus stimulus package on Capitol Hill ended the week in a stalemate. But there’s one form of help lawmakers reportedly agree on: a second set of stimulus checks. This week’s
Still no deal for coronavirus relief. Senate Republicans remain divided on unemployment insurance benefits. Meanwhile, Republican and Democratic negotiators continue to reach an overall agreement by, they hope, the end of this week, though some lawmakers are not optimistic about that timeline. Beyond coronavirus relief, The Wall Street Journal reports (paywall) on other provisions that
Payment notification. Serious unhappy elderly woman sitting together with her husband and looking at … [+] the document while holding it getty Well while Congress dithers our President takes action to give us some relief with an executive order a “modest, targeted action will put money directly in the pockets of American workers and generate
The Internal Revenue Service is sending $500 payments to the children of some stimulus relief recipients who hadn’t gotten that part of the aid package after lawmakers complained that the agency wasn’t moving fast enough. “IRS will issue $500 per qualifying child to eligible individuals who used the Non-Filers tool before May 17, 2020, and
Agatha Kulaga, co-founder and CEO of Ovenly Source: Agatha Kulaga The past few months certainly haven’t been easy for small businesses. Many had to shut their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. While some may never reopen, others are ramping up their business — and hoping they don’t have to shut down again. Retail and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, (R) and US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and the … [+] Trump administration failed to reach a deal this week on coronavirus. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Congress is in a stalemate over the next round
Democrats are demanding more Republican concessions to meet an end-of-the-week deadline for a deal on pandemic relief, and one of the chief White House negotiators warned there is little time left for negotiations. “While we have started to generate some forward momentum, we need our partners in the White House to go much further on
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Eastman Kodak‘s disclosure about getting awarded a $765 million loan from the U.S. government to start producing drug ingredients, which sent the stock up on heavy volume ahead of the official announcement, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. On July 27, a day before Kodak, as well as President Donald
Fancy/Veer/Corbis | Getty Images Bianca Thomas was always working. Except on Sunday — that was church day. But in March, everything changed. Thomas lost her job as a prep cook in an eatery catering to Boston Bruins and Celtics season ticket holders. Singing in the church choir, a joy of hers for 13 years, wasn’t possible
Democrats hold fast to the $600 unemployment benefit boost as talks continue. The Washington Post reports on the “messy back and forth” between Republicans and Democrats as they work to reach common ground on coronavirus relief. President Trump said he’d sign an executive order today to extend enhanced unemployment benefits and provide a payroll tax cut
Taxes and staking are two topics that have a murky history together due to lack of staking specific guidance issued by the IRS. How staking should be taxed is already a controversial issue (How Staking Tezos May Generate ‘Rental’ Income). When staking income should be taxed is an even more pressing issue because it affects
The long wait for the end of the long postponement is over. How did this July 15 compare with regular Tax Day? “‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ applies,” said Joseph McCaffrey, a CPA and partner of operations at Morris + D’Angelo CPAs, in San Jose, California. “Extending the
Motorcyclists pass a 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) billboard at the Tun Razak Exchange development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 3, 2016. Olivia Harris | Reuters Goldman Sachs on Friday lowered its previously stated quarterly net earnings applicable to common shareholders to $197 million from $2.25 billion. The bank said in a filing it had set
“I’m on Indeed every single day, looking for jobs,” Lafauci, 36, said. “There’s nothing.” Source: Sarah Lafauci It’s now been over a week since tens of millions of Americans have stopped receiving the $600 federal unemployment boost. Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats over what to replace those payments with have turned into an increasingly protracted and bitter
Housing affordability was a major issue even before the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding recession, but the current economic hardship has made it more salient. Immediate support for people struggling makes sense now, but lawmakers should also consider long-term solutions to the problem of high rents, namely by expanding the supply of housing. Improving the tax
According to news reports, the Vermont legislature is ready to advance S54 this month or next, to legalize cultivation and sales of marijuana in the state beginning in 2022. Versions of the bill have been approved by both chambers. The current regulatory situation in Vermont is unique, as marijuana possession has been legal since January
As Canadian provinces increased their spending due to Covid-19 measures ranging from 0.2 percent of GDP in New Brunswick up to 6.5 percent of GDP in Quebec, their budget deficits ballooned. The economic and health crisis comes at a difficult moment for Canadian provinces as their pre-pandemic budgets were already running deficits. In early February,
Last puzzle piece. getty In this episode of Willis Weighs In, Benjamin M. Willis, Tax Notes Federal contributing editor, discusses carried interests with partnership tax expert Monte A. Jackel. Monte and Ben speculate on what the new regulations are expected to look like and provide their opinions on potential IRS overreaches likely to be overturned if potentially tenuous arguments
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