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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Nearly all of President Biden’s proposed tax increases would be borne by the highest income 1 percent of households–those making about $800,000 or more—according to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center. At the same time, Biden would cut taxes for many low- and moderate-income households and reduce them substantially for those

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Infrastructure talks between Biden and the GOP are done. On to Plan B. Ongoing talks between President Biden and a small group of Republican senators have ended with no agreement. The two sides never got closure on either the amount of spending or how to pay for it. Biden will now sit down

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington 09 June 2021 The US Internal Revenue Service has issued a reminder to taxpayers who pay estimated taxes that they have until June 15 to pay their estimated tax payment for the second quarter of tax year 2021 without incurring a penalty. Estimated tax is the method

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A new report from ProPublica argues that wealthy taxpayers face low effective tax rates as a portion of their wealth and mentions taxing unrealized capital gains or imposing a wealth tax. However, a better approach to raising the tax burden on the wealthy would be to pursue progressive consumption taxes as they have

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Most Social Security reform proposals have focused on one goal: restoring the program’s long-run fiscal balance. Yet under all recent proposed restructurings we have examined—whether by Democrats or Republicans in Congress, in the presidential campaign, or by a bipartisan commission—the share of older adults and younger people with disabilities who live in relative

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: Higher interest rates would be “a plus.” Yellen tells Bloomberg News that President Biden should push his $4 trillion in new spending, even if it  triggers inflation and higher interest rates that persist into next year. “If we ended up with a slightly higher interest rate environment it would

TweetShareSharePin0 SharesA Quick Guide To Payroll Tax The term Payroll tax actually includes the Social Security tax, Medicare tax and Federal income tax. The Social Security tax provides benefits for retired workers, the disabled their dependents and it has a payroll tax rate of 6.2%. There is a maximum annual amount of Social Security tax