tax Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week, an analysis by Reuters suggested that U.S. firms pay less income tax than foreign competitors, in part because “the U.S. tax code is unusually generous with tax breaks and deductions,” also known as corporate tax expenditures. However, the Reuters analysis is at odds with other data and studies indicating that U.S.

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares With the recent launch of a campaign to get people who are not usually networked with the federal tax system to sign up for the Advanced Child Tax Credit (AdvCTC), the Administration, Congress, and advocates are focusing on what a permanent AdvCTC would look like.  Some child welfare and anti-poverty advocates are promoting the concept of

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by New Hampshire to file a bill of complaint against Massachusetts in a case involving Massachusetts’s taxation of remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supreme Court’s order indicated that Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito would have granted the motion. New Hampshire

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Thieves stealing economic impact payments and unemployment benefit checks head the list of this year’s IRS “Dirty Dozen” of tax-related scams and schemes (IR-2021-135). The warning Monday about “pandemic-related scams” was the first of four installments this year in which the IRS highlights egregious tax-related crimes and misdeeds against which it is advising

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today the Supreme Court announced it will not resolve a key question of state taxation: Should income tax dollars support where you work or where you live? By declining to hear a dispute between two New England states, the court maintains the current rule of “it depends.” New Hampshire vs. Massachusetts involved Massachusetts’s

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week I wrote about a recent Tax Court order regarding restitution.  In that case, the taxpayer fully paid the tax included in the restitution order.  At issue in the case were penalties the IRS proposed against the taxpayers.  I pointed out at the conclusion of that post the significant benefit to the

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Beginning in July, most families with children will receive up to $250 a month per child ($300 for children under 6). Those payments are advances of the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which was temporarily expanded in the American Rescue Plan (ARP). The CTC expansion and monthly advance payments should be extended past their