tax Archive

Copa do Mundo das injustiças #43: the Tax Justice Network Portuguese podcast
November 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to our monthly podcast in Portuguese, É da sua conta (‘it’s your business’) produced and hosted by Grazielle David and Daniela Stefano. All our podcasts are unique productions in five different languages – English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese. They’re all available here. Here’s the latest episode: Copa do Mundo das injustiças #43 Paraísos fiscais, violação de direitos trabalhistas de imigrantes, empresas de apostas desportivas online

Taxpayers would benefit if IRS used digital communications tools appropriately
November 23, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS risks falling short of the objectives of three major goal-setting agendas if it doesn’t expand its digital program so that it works directly with taxpayers, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in an audit report. TIGTA issued the audit report of the Taxpayer Digital Communication (TDC) program —
Suspending the CSED by Pursuing Litigation or Is This the Final Stop for the Weiss Case?
November 23, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We have written about the Weiss case on several previous occasions as it wound its way to the Supreme Court and then started anew in the Tax Court. You can find those posts here with links in the first sentence of that post to the prior three posts on the cases and appeals

Federal Tax & Budget Policy During the Lame Duck
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Two weeks after the 2022 midterm elections, it’s becoming clearer where tax policy may be headed for the rest of the year and into 2023. In the short term, Congress must deal with tax extenders and expiring business tax provisions that may undermine the economy. Next year, the return of divided government and

🔴 Live blog: UN vote on new tax leadership role
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Countries are expected to approve by majority vote on Wednesday 23 November a UN resolution mandating the UN to take on a global tax leadership role. The vote by the UN General Assembly will mark the end of the OECD’s sixty-year reign as the world’s leading rule maker on global tax, and trigger
Court Orders Enforcement Of A Summons Request From Abroad Allegedly To Harass Prominent Members Of Opposition Political Party
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tax agencies face problems enforcing tax laws when their citizens have investments located abroad. One tool that countries use to address that problem is to include exchange of information provisions in tax treaties. Another tool is a specific exchange of information treaty, or a tax information exchange agreement. The general effect of these

Proposed regulations provide guidance on foreign tax credit rules
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Treasury issued proposed regulations (REG-112096-22) relating to the foreign tax credit (FTC) on Friday, including revisions to the reattribution asset rule for purposes of allocating and apportioning foreign taxes, the cost recovery requirement, and the application of the source-based attribution requirement to withholding tax on royalty payments. Reattribution asset rule The 2022 FTC

Massachusetts Question 1: Massachusetts Millionaires Tax
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On Election Day, a narrow majority of voters approved Massachusetts Question 1, also known as the Fair Share Amendment, which will transition the Commonwealth from a flat rate individual income tax to a graduated rate system. Effective January 1, 2023, the Bay State will begin taxing all individual income above $1 million at a

South Dakota Faces Controversy Over Repeal of Food Sales Tax
November 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares If South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) does not fulfill her campaign promise of repealing the state’s food tax, it could wind up on the ballot in 2024. In September, Noem assured voters that, if re-elected on November 8, she would repeal the grocery tax. At the time, a report from the Keloland Media Group quoted
An Overreach of State Tax Collection Activity
November 21, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This week, guest blogger Anna Gooch of the Center for Taxpayer Rights returns with a post about a fascinating 6th Circuit case dealing with the seizure powers of states and the Constitution’s Takings Clause. Anna has been coordinating the Center’s nationwide survey of state taxpayer rights as well as the Center’s current workshop