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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares CBO: Federal deficit will reach $3 trillion in 2021. Largely because of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government will spend $6.8 trillion in 2021 and collect $3.8 trillion in revenue. The $3 trillion deficit will be slightly less than last year since US is likely to collect more revenue as

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares News Procedure & Administration By Dave Strausfeld, J.D. In the fourth and final installment of this year’s IRS “Dirty Dozen” list, which highlights common tax-related scams, the IRS cautioned taxpayers to be on the lookout for schemes peddled by unscrupulous tax promoters, including syndicated conservation easements, abusive microcaptive insurance arrangements, and other

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In recent years, countries have been debating significant changes to international tax rules that apply to multinational companies. This week there was a breakthrough in discussions, and an outline for the new rules was released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). If today’s global tax agreement is fully implemented, large

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2021-14 on Wednesday instructing taxpayers with a net operating loss (NOL), consisting entirely or partly of a “farming loss,” as defined in Sec. 172(b)(1)(B)(ii), on how to make or revoke certain elections including those available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, P.L. 116-136. For

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Michigan lawmakers are considering lowering the corporate income tax rate to alleviate the tax burden on businesses still emerging from the pandemic and to make the state more competitive. Senate Bill 392 would retroactively reduce the state’s corporate income tax rate from 6 percent to 5.5 in tax year 2021, and then lower

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares While high top tax rates may provide “sticker shock” for corporations looking for a state to call home, they are just one of several important drivers of businesses’ tax burdens and tax compliance costs. The tax base, and more broadly, the structure of the tax code, play a large role in business taxes

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Three upcoming tax law changes scheduled by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) to help offset its revenue losses would be canceled by proposed legislation that would prevent the tax treatment of investment from worsening over the coming years. Three Upcoming Tax Increases on Investment Policy Timing Requirement to amortize R&D