Monthly Archive:: May 2021

The Real American Dream – in Scandinavia: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2021
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe either by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice.net or find us on your podcast app. In this episode: Taxcast host Naomi Fowler talks to millionaire and wealth tax campaigner Djaffar Shalchi of Millionaires for Humanity about his experience of moving from

The Real American Dream – in Scandinavia: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2021
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to the latest episode of the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast, the Taxcast. You can subscribe either by emailing naomi [at] taxjustice.net or find us on your podcast app. In this episode: Taxcast host Naomi Fowler talks to millionaire and wealth tax campaigner Djaffar Shalchi of Millionaires for Humanity about his experience of moving from
Draft employer’s payroll tax return incorporates ARPA changes
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS on Tuesday released a draft revised 2021 version of Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, reflecting further new and updated payroll tax credits. The current official version was released less than three months earlier on March 9, and the impending further changes reflect Congress’s multiple provisions of temporary payroll tax
Biden’s Tax On Large Capital Gains At Death Will Catch A Few With Annual Incomes Of Less than $400,000
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares President Biden’s campaign promise never to raise taxes on those making $400,000 or less annually will inevitably conflict with his proposal to tax unrealized capital gains at death. We estimate Biden’s new capital gains tax could exempt about 98 percent of decedents who made $400,000 or less, but about 2 percent may face
Things That Make You Say Hmmm
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We welcome back guest blogger and commenter in chief, Bob Kamman. As usual, Bob has found things that the rest of us overlook. In addition to the interesting twists on the way things work that Bob discusses below, I received a message from Carl Smith who, though retired, still takes some interest in
Credit card anyone?
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 SharesCredit card anyone? The emergence of electronic age made almost everything possible to people. Determining and curing terminal diseases made convenient, reaching uncharted territories became a possibility, and most of all; everyday life of people is made easy by the technology. We now have more convenient stores, easier means of transportation and a variety
Donor Disclosures, Income Measures, and Tax Prep
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares ISO: Funds to pay for infrastructure. Democrats and Republicans have been at loggerheads for weeks over how to pay for Biden’s big infrastructure bill, or some version of it. Democrats want to raise corporate taxes. Republicans say they want to raise unspecified user fees. Now a bipartisan group of eight senators is floating

Tax Relief for Families in Europe, 2021
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Most countries provide tax relief to families with children—typically through targeted tax breaks that lower income taxes. While all European OECD countries provide tax relief for families, its extent varies substantially across countries. One way to measure targeted tax relief for families is to compare the tax burdens on labor of a family
Hiring an IRS Dispute Lawyer
May 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Hiring an IRS Dispute Lawyer Source: Flickr Most people would probably break a cold sweat just by the mere mention of the IRS. Admittedly, dealing with an IRS agent can be one of the most absolutely terrifying experiences in an ordinary individual’s life. So what would you do if a ferocious IRS agent
The Legal Procedure Of Wage Garnishment
May 26, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Legal Procedure Of Wage Garnishment Source: Flickr A legal procedure, in which some portion of a person’s earning is required to be withheld by an employee for the payment of the debt, is called as wage garnishment. Most of these garnishments are made by court orders. There are some other legal procedures