Don’t you just love it when there’s a law that can finally make a difference? Well, put on your seat belts, folks, because we are about to go on a heck of ride!
Continue reading No more puffery!
So, what does the Senate version of this bill (HR-1) do? By and large, the Senate bill matches HR-1. But, there are some significant differences. It’s not clear which house will prevail in their interpretation of the various changes (or that the Senate version passes at all). But, again, tax planning is critical- we need to know what may happen. We need to discern what changes this Senate version- if it passes- will have in conference, when the House and Senate work out the differences in their versions.
Continue reading And, now for the Senate Side
Remember how embarrassed a few people were when the Panama Papers (pilfered from the law firm of Mossack Fonseca) were released? When all those supersecret (and illegal) 214,488 offshore accounts were divulged? Which is the reason someone car-bombed Daphne Caruana Galizia and murdered her.
Continue reading I didn’t forget about this…
We are continuing the exploration of the proposed new tax law. Parts 1 and 2 covered individual taxation issues. (There was a preamble, as well.) Yesterday, we started our discussion of what may happen to business taxes.
We’ve seen what could be happening with our personal taxes. (Part 1 here; part 2 here. And, the preamble.) Now, let’s see what changes the House plans for US business taxation.
We began discussing the proposed changes to personal tax filings yesterday. We’ll finish with the changes to the individual tax system today-and then go on to the changes to the business tax filings.
Let’s reiterate what I said yesterday– I don’t expect this bill to pass. Certainly not the way it was presented in the bill. These posts were written on 2 November- when the bill was published. Since then, the House has proposed changes to its own bill. And, 1 week later, the Senate published a slightly different version- which means that I will be adding to this series to contrast the differences between the two bills. (This series that was 5 blogs will now be 7.)
Do you know that the IRS has not changed its policies on gifts? That any business gift that costs more than $ 25 is taxable to the extent if exceeds that threshold? That is has been in place since 1981- which means at the very least the IRS should have changed the deductible limit to $ 66.
Don’t you just love it that when the Democratic Party is in power, all the GOP can discuss is the increasing debt. And, once the GOP takes power, they forget all about the debt and suggest a tax reduction for the rich that will add trillions of dollars to our debt and render the budget inflows to be a small percentage of the budget outflows.
Continue reading What Can We Do About Taxes?
Tax Reform is all the rage. And, now that the fairy-tale land of budget reconciliation has terminated (it ended on 30 September, where items could pass with a simple majority- which means the Vice President could break any ties), our Congress will now get all hyped about lowering the tax burden (I fear they will offer the rich a tax break, the poor more taxes, the middle class empty promises, and Christmas gifts for big business. We’ll have to see what they really propose.)
Continue reading Tax Reform? Maybe…
