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The Trump administration’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018 would require a Social Security number for claiming either the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Child Tax Credit in an effort to deny the refundable tax credits to undocumented immigrants.
May 23 -
A private investigator in Baton Rouge, La., has been indicted for trying to use the Internal Revenue Service’s online data retrieval tool for student loan applications to access tax information from President Donald Trump.
May 23 -
The hearing on the proposed border-adjustment tax that has split corporate America for months is finally happening, but the measure may be further than ever from reality.
May 23 -
The president's plan would dramatically reduce the government’s role in society, but relies on a sweeping tax overhaul package that may not happen.
May 23 -
There are two types of accountants—those who do their work with blinders and those with wide-open eyes. Both can do competent jobs for their clients, but the ones with the wide-open eyes grow and can do far better work for their clients.
May 22
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The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Thursday to examine how tax reform will grow the economy and create jobs, even as the turmoil surrounding the Trump administration threatened the prospects for the first comprehensive tax overhaul in more than three decades.
May 18 -
Three Republican lawmakers who chair key congressional committees and subcommittees related to tax policy have sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen asking about the IRS’s recent efforts to gain more information about users of Coinbase, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S.
May 17 -
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady is forging ahead and planning to hold a hearing next week on the proposed border-adjusted tax, even as the top Senate Republican said the measure probably won’t pass his chamber.
May 17 -
The American Institute of CPAs has sent a list of six tax regulations to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that it wants the Treasury Department to review under an executive order from President Trump calling for reducing overly burdensome tax regulations.
May 16 -
After months of uncertainty about a border-adjusted tax, retail CEOs are renewing efforts to quash the idea.
May 16 -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has taken pains to stress that the Trump administration isn’t out to kill Americans’ beloved mortgage-interest tax deduction—but a side effect of the plan could turn it into a perk for only the wealthy.
May 16 -
This program will be a wild ride on everything you need to consider.
May 15
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The president’s personal lawyers said in a letter that his taxes from the past 10 years show that—with a few exceptions—he received no income from Russian sources and owed no debts to Russian lenders.
May 12 -
The president is leaning toward preserving a trillion-dollar tax break for corporate borrowers—a move that economists say could jeopardize his goal of robust economic growth.
May 12 -
Republican senators said it’s unclear whether their chamber will repeal all of the taxes imposed under Obamacare as they set aside the health-care bill passed by the House and prepare to write their own from scratch.
May 9 -
President Donald Trump’s economic team says it won’t be satisfied until Americans workers earn more—and aggressive tax cuts are essential for those fatter paychecks.
May 8 -
I think branding is very important. Everyone and every business has a brand. Inattention to branding creates a brand that might not be what you would like, but nevertheless you will have a brand. Branding needs deliberate attention.
May 8
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President Donald Trump faces many hurdles in delivering his promised tax cut, but none may be more formidable than the congressional calendar.
May 8 -
Passage of the House’s health-care bill gives the Obamacare repeal effort new life after months of wrangling, but key Republican senators are already pushing it aside to write their own bill with no clear timetable to act.
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House Republicans mustered just enough votes to pass their health-care bill Thursday, salvaging what at times appeared to be a doomed mission to repeal and partially replace Obamacare under intense pressure from President Donald Trump to produce legislative accomplishments.
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