Treasury Department Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A perfect storm, and 35 million unprocessed returns. In her annual objectives report to Congress, National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins finds that the IRS still had 35.3 million unprocessed returns at the end of the 2021 filing season, four times what it had at the end of the 2019 filing season. In something

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The holiday weekend is almost upon us and many are getting ready for a weekend of family and celebration. Independence Day means firing up the barbecue, setting off fireworks, enjoying cold drinks, and wearing flag paraphernalia. It also means spending big: last year, Americans spent $6.52 billion for the Fourth of July. This

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A rosy revenue outlook has allowed Ohio to join eight other states (Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma) in providing tax relief this legislative session. The legislature agreed on a two-year budget ahead of today’s deadline, and the budget is now awaiting Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R) signature. It includes

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A Democratic-only social spending bill gains Manchin’s support. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin told MSNBC that he’s always assumed Democrats would need to use reconciliation to pass a second, larger bill aimed at supporting families. He says he’d support such a Democratic-only social spending measure, but says it shouldn’t be linked to a

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Wisconsin Assembly and Senate this week are considering several tax reforms as part of the budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2022-23 biennium, which begins Thursday (July 1). Several were precipitated by the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s (LFB) announcement earlier this month that the state is projected to end the current fiscal

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 McConnell: De-link bipartisan infrastructure bill from reconciliation bill, or… else? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Biden not to let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “hold a bipartisan bill hostage over a separate and partisan process.” McConnell insists he is undecided on the bipartisan deal. But Democrats