Treasury Department Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Now that Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has kicked off the budget reconciliation process to advance President Biden’s agenda, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Angus King (I-ME) and Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) are pushing to create a new surtax on corporate book income. However, their arguments for the policy misconstrue why there

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This week’s map showcases states which levy alternative minimum taxes (AMTs) to prevent corporations from reducing their corporate income tax liability beyond a certain level. Under an AMT, corporations are required to calculate their income tax liability under two systems and pay the higher amount. This requirement under the federal AMT imposed steep

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Even close followers of tax news may have been caught off guard when compliance for cryptocurrencies became the hot topic in the Senate’s debate over infrastructure. But what is it really about? In the simplest terms, the measure aims to ensure that people who own and trade cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin pay the

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In what has become common practice, a handful of senators and Administration staffers tried over a few days to draft a highly complex bit of tax legislation in a (at least a metaphorical) backroom in the dark of night. The piece of the massive infrastructure bill just approved by the Senate would require

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released an updated list of “Harmful Tax Practices” that have been identified as part of a country peer review process. One notable element of the recent list states that the United States has committed to abolish the deduction for Foreign Derived Intangible Income

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act poised for Senate passage. The Senate is expected to pass the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill today. Will there be a cryptocurrency reporting deal? Yesterday, senators and the Biden Administration appeared to reach a compromise after the crypto industry opposed the original reporting requirements backed by the White

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tennessee Senator slows amendment debate after CBO report on deficits. Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty opposed the bipartisan infrastructure bill because of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score finding it would increase the deficit by $256 billion. The bipartisan group of senators who developed the deal said it would be fully offset. Said Hagerty,