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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Biden administration has proposed several tax increases on businesses, whether structured as C corporations subject to the corporate income tax or passthrough entities such as S corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships that are subject to the individual income tax. It is important to remember that those business taxes ultimately fall on people,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent nearly $15 billion of advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments to families of nearly 60 million children, acting on the CTC expansion from the American Rescue Plan (ARP). New Treasury Department data released on the payments shows the distribution of the expanded CTC by state,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In March 2020, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a $11.8 billion budget that was $500 million lower than what he had proposed just weeks earlier—before the outbreak of COVID-19. And Ducey predicted “many tough decisions ahead of us as we better understand the full impact of this crisis on our citizens and on

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Businesses’ tax liability can differ markedly across states, and policymakers often pay attention to this competitive tax landscape. What is less often remarked upon, however, is the variation of tax treatment within a given state. Different industries and activities can face radically different tax burdens within the same state due to non-neutralities in

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Trend: States Reform Income Taxes To Provide Relief And Remain Competitive Key Findings As states close their books for fiscal year 2021, many have much more revenue on hand than they anticipated last year. In 2021, 11 states have enacted laws to reduce their income tax rates, with 10 reducing individual income tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We have often discussed the reach of the 1985 Supreme Court case United States v. Boyle. Section 6651(a)(1) and (2) impose delinquency penalties for failing to file a tax return or pay a tax unless the taxpayer can establish that the failure was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.  Boyle essentially stands for

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D), and Sen. Cory Booker (D) released their discussion draft—the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act—for federal descheduling of marijuana. While federal descheduling impacts all states, it does not deschedule marijuana in states which choose to keep their own ban. Nevertheless,