by Bill Brunell, EA | Jan 31, 2019 | Tax Tips and News
Tax Policy – Sanders’ Estate Tax Plan Won’t Likely Raise the Revenue Intended
Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a plan to make the estate tax more progressive, in hopes that this wealth transfer tax will raise as much as $315 billion over ten...
by Bill Brunell, EA | Jan 31, 2019 | Tax Tips and News
Tax Policy – Income Taxes on the Top 0.1 Percent Weren’t Much Higher in the 1950s
Lawmakers have recently announced plans that would increase the tax burden on wealthy Americans, ranging from higher marginal income tax rates to wealth taxes. These...
by Bill Brunell, EA | Jan 31, 2019 | Tax Tips and News
Tax Policy – Implementing Phase Three of Individual Income Tax Cuts in Arkansas
Yesterday, Governor Hutchinson and legislative leaders in Arkansas announced their final plan for restructuring Arkansas’s individual income tax brackets. After more than 18...
by Bill Brunell, EA | Jan 30, 2019 | Tax Tips and News
IRS Tax News – IRS issues updates on post-shutdown activities
The IRS posted guidance for the public explaining how it will be operating now that the shutdown has ended, to catch up on its backlog in audits, collections, tax return processing, and Tax...
by Bill Brunell, EA | Jan 30, 2019 | Tax Tips and News
Tax Policy – What the U.S. Can Learn from the Adoption (and Repeal) of Wealth Taxes in the OECD
Recent discussions of a proposed wealth tax for the United States have included little information about trends in wealth taxation among other developed...