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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Biden administration has proposed to significantly increase the tax burden on foreign income through a policy known as Global Intangible Low-Tax Income (GILTI). While the administration’s rhetoric focuses on doubling the tax rate on GILTI from 10.5 percent to 21 percent, this is less than half the story. The rate on GILTI

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Trend: States Reform Income Taxes To Provide Relief And Remain Competitive Key Findings As states close their books for fiscal year 2021, many have much more revenue on hand than they anticipated last year. In 2021, 11 states have enacted laws to reduce their income tax rates, with 10 reducing individual income tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Some of President Biden’s tax proposals, such as taxing unrealized capital gains at death, are specifically aimed at reducing wealth inequality. Indeed, it is commonly asserted that wealth inequality is too high and rapidly growing over time. However, new research from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston economists suggests wealth inequality has grown less

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Details slowly emerge on the Democrats’ budget plan. Senate Democratic leaders agreed to a $3.5 trillion top line for the budget that would carry a broad range of social programs. President Biden pitched the plan on Capitol Hill yesterday. Bernie Sanders helped draft it and centrist Joe Manchin says he’s willing to consider

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D), and Sen. Cory Booker (D) released their discussion draft—the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act—for federal descheduling of marijuana. While federal descheduling impacts all states, it does not deschedule marijuana in states which choose to keep their own ban. Nevertheless,

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Sen. Manchin on infrastructure: Everything should be paid for. The West Virginia Democrat told reporters that “we’ve put enough free money out.” He won’t publicly  commit to a top line number for an “inevitable” Democratic-only bill to complement a traditional infrastructure-only measure but said he’d vote for something between $1 trillion and $2

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: Semanas cruciales para el nuevo impuesto