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Observations from the ABA Tax Section Meeting
May 13, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This week is the ABA Tax Section meeting. Normally, this is the biggest meeting of the year because it takes place in DC and the Tax Section can attract all of the government speakers. With everything happening in the tax world at the moment, there would be lots of important players to see
Dividend Tax Rates in Europe
May 13, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Many countries’ personal income tax systems tax various sources of individual income—including investment income such as dividends and capital gains. Today’s map shows how dividend income is taxed across European OECD countries. A dividend is a payment made to a corporation’s shareholders from corporate after-tax profits. In most countries, such dividend payments are
State Sales Tax Collections per Capita
May 12, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This week’s map looks at state and local sales tax collections per capita. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have state-levied sales taxes. Five states—Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon—do not collect sales taxes at the state level, although Alaska allows localities to impose local sales taxes. In fiscal year (FY) 2018, the
Restitution Based Assessments
May 12, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We note that the Practical Tax Lawyer (“PTL”) is looking for authors. PTL gives the general practice and small firm lawyer short, practical “how-to” or “intro to” sorts of articles on tax. PTL especially welcome articles that help practitioners think about how to deal with recent changes in the law, regulations, or IRS
6 key areas of paid tax preparer regulation highlighted in AICPA letter to Congress
May 12, 2021
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News Practice & Procedures By Dave Strausfeld, J.D. The AICPA welcomed the Biden administration’s recent request for congressional legislation to give the IRS the authority to regulate paid tax preparers who are currently unregulated. The Biden proposal, included in the recently released American Families Plan, requests Congress to pass legislation authorizing the
Countries Discuss Post-Pandemic Tax Agenda At UN Council Meeting
May 12, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels 12 May 2021 Experts speaking at the UN’s Economic and Social Council’s annual Special Meeting on International Cooperation in Tax Matters concluded that the international community must do more to tackle tax base erosion and profit shifting and offshore tax evasion.
Among other pressing topics, tax policy
The Tax Justice Network May 2021 Spanish language podcast, Justicia ImPositiva: Histórica huelga en Colombia, mínima tasa global #59
May 11, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to our Spanish language podcast and radio programme Justicia ImPositiva with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónico! Escuche por su app de podcast favorita. En este programa: La posibilidad de una tasa
The Tax Justice Network May 2021 Spanish language podcast, Justicia ImPositiva: Histórica huelga en Colombia, mínima tasa global #59
May 11, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Welcome to our Spanish language podcast and radio programme Justicia ImPositiva with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónico! Escuche por su app de podcast favorita. En este programa: La posibilidad de una tasa
IRS clarifies pandemic relief for dependent care assistance programs
May 11, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares With Notice 2021-26, the IRS explained on Monday that dependent care assistance program balances carried forward under temporary COVID-19 relief provisions retain their exclusion from participating employees’ gross income and wages. Dependent care assistance programs, authorized by Sec. 129, allow exclusion from gross income of employee amounts paid or incurred by the employer
Senate Finance Committee Tax Gap Hearing Today
May 11, 2021
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Last month Commissioner Rettig testified before the Senate Finance Committee, and he stated that the tax gap could be approaching $1 trillion annually. That got a lot of attention, especially as the IRS’s own official
