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Is Ending the Grocery Tax on States’ Tax Cut Shopping List?
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Despite some warnings of long-term fiscal risk, policymakers across the country continue to push big state tax cuts. While most are focused on income taxes, grocery taxes have also emerged as a target in 2022. In fact, eight of the 13 states that tax groceries are considering cuts. Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah,

R&D, A Flat Tax, And A State Appeal For Capital Gains Tax
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Will the R&D tax break return next week? US companies are urging lawmakers to restore full first-year deductions for research and development expenses as soon as possible. Their preference: The omnibus appropriations package that must be approved by March 11. The 2017 tax law temporarily allowed full expensing but the provision expired this

A Regulatory Tax Hike on US Multinationals
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Throughout the first year of the Biden administration, one tax policy theme was consistent. The President and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were focused on increasing the tax burden on U.S. companies—particularly multinational companies. As Secretary Yellen put it last year, “It is about making sure that governments have stable tax systems that raise

Missouri Tax Reform: Missouri Tax Competitiveness
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares “Frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me,” the 19th century Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver allegedly declared. “I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.” In the realm of tax policy and economic competitiveness, lawmakers from the Show-Me state are turning the old adage around. They are showing the rest of the
Give And You Shall Receive Through Car Donation
March 3, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 SharesGive And You Shall Receive Through Car Donation There is nothing more annoying than a cramped up garage or the wasted space an old car takes up. While your teenage kids probably won’t gush over the thought of using your old car, a charitable institution definitely won’t mind taking your outdated cast off. Aside

Federal Menthol Cigarette Ban May Cost Governments $6.6 Billion
March 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This spring, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to announce a national ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes and cigars with a characterizing flavor, an attempt to limit tobacco consumption, and, as a result, improve public health. But given the high level of taxation on tobacco products (on average, excise taxes
Investors and Experts Propose Extending The Tax Cut on Dividends
March 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 SharesInvestors and Experts Propose Extending The Tax Cut on Dividends “Investors love dividends,” and that, experts say, is one reason many Americans are showing deep support for a permanent dividend tax cut. According to results of a spot survey sponsored by Eaton Vance Corporation in March, seven in ten (70 percent) Americans polled agree

The Tax Justice Network’s French podcast: Les 4 Rs de la justice fiscale pour financer l’adaptation aux changements climatiques en Afrique
March 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to our monthly podcast in French, Impôts et Justice Sociale with Idriss Linge of the Tax Justice Network. All our podcasts are unique productions in five different languages every month in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese. They’re all available here and on most podcast apps. Here’s our latest episode: Pour cette 37ème édition de votre podcast en français sur la Justice Fiscale et

Sales Tax Carveouts: They’re All About That Base
March 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Scrolling through Instagram as a parent of teenagers does from time to time, I tapped on a high school girl’s story that happily marked the end of Michigan’s “tampon tax.” I’m always thrilled when tax policy makes it into Gen Z’s social media consciousness, but I was frustrated, too. Exempting feminine hygiene products

Ukraine Money In An Omnibus Spending Bill; Paying More At the Pump
March 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The fate of a bipartisan Ukraine bill. Lawmakers are looking at a huge funding bill to support Ukraine but they have differences over the amount and the use. President Biden is asking for at least $6 billion but some lawmakers want as much as $10 billion. Sponsors hope to include the money in