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Lawmakers are asking the Internal Revenue Service to expedite the processing of Employee Retention Tax Credits and not to penalize small businesses for incorrectly paying their estimated quarterly taxes as they await their claims.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig pledged to do more to improve taxpayer service after Congress approved a $675 million funding increase.

Policy makers voted 8-1 to lift their key rate to a target range of 0.25% to 0.5%, the first increase since 2018, after two years of holding borrowing costs near zero.

Individual tax return preparation will be revved up going into the last month of tax season.

Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden is developing policies that could remove some tax benefits available to Russian and Belarusian individuals and entities that earn income from the U.S.

U.S. governors from California to New York are proposing tax cuts, rebates and other forms of relief to drivers paying more than $4 a gallon to fill their gasoline tanks amid Russia’s war with Ukraine.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Elizabeth Warren say they’re working on a proposed new tax targeting profits being reaped by oil companies as crude prices spike amid geopolitical tensions.

His proposal includes partially rolling back the 2017 tax cuts by raising rates on upper-income Americans and corporations.

In the State of the Union, the president pitched elements of his stalled “Build Back Better” program as a means to temper the surge in prices that’s costing him support.

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