Treasury Department Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Progress toward the outline of a potential agreement. That’s how White House press secretary described a possible deal on an infrastructure plan between a bipartisan group of senators and top White House aides. The senators said last night they had reached tentative agreement on how to spend about $1 trillion, including about $579

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Loss carryover provisions allow businesses to either deduct current year losses against future profits (carryforwards) or current year losses against past profits (carrybacks). Many companies have investment projects with different risk profiles and operate in industries that fluctuate greatly with the business cycle. Carryover provisions help businesses “smooth” their risk and income, making

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares McAfee Facing Crypto & Tax Evasion Alleged Suicide Pre-Extradition McAfee Facing Crypto & Tax Evasion Alleged Suicide Pre-Extradition: John McAfee, who had recently been charged with various tax crimes in the United States for cryptocurrency fraud and evasion — was facing many possible years in prison if convicted. The U.S. sough to extradite

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Whether you’re a self-appointed connoisseur or an occasional sipper of chardonnay, you may not have thought about the taxes that go into your wine purchase. But now you can quench your newfound thirst for excise tax info with this week’s map, which compares wine taxes among the 50 states, expressed in dollars per gallon. States

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Sanders would partially repeal the SALT cap. Senate Budget Committee chair Bernie Sanders will include a partial repeal of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act’s $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction in his proposed budget resolution. He has not described details but says the cap likely would remain for

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On Thursday, New Hampshire lawmakers are scheduled to take up a budget conference report which contains several tax reforms negotiated by both chambers that would ultimately make New Hampshire the ninth state to impose no tax on individual income. These reforms floated at the beginning of the 2021 session found their way into

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As Congress considers President Biden’s proposal to raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, it is important to remember that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 expanded the corporate tax base. A broader corporate tax base means that increasing the tax rate will have a larger