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The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said the Treasury Department “missed the mark” in new guidance that limits tax breaks for businesses that get their Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven.
November 20 -
Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden have asked internal watchdogs to investigate whether there’s been political interference in audits of the president's returns.
October 8 -
A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation to offer tax relief to individuals, businesses and states affected by catastrophic wildfires and other presidentially declared disasters.
September 17 -
Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill to overturn President Trump’s executive action to defer payroll tax contributions, along with a resolution of disapproval that’s being coordinated with Democrats in the Senate.
September 8 -
The Internal Revenue Service has completed its first settlement order with the operator of a syndicated conservation easement scheme as part of a broader crackdown on what the IRS views as abusive tax scams.
August 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service is sending $500 payments to the children of some stimulus relief recipients who hadn’t gotten that part of the aid package after lawmakers complained that the agency wasn’t moving fast enough.
August 6 -
The group wrote to legislators supporting ‘The Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act.’
July 31 -
In a letter to leading legislators, the group also urged them to make businesses expenses paid with PPP money deductible.
July 29 -
Democrats in Congress are criticizing how millions of economic impact payments authorized under the CARES Act are being handled.
July 28 -
The final IRS and Treasury rules let taxpayers exclude certain income from their GILTI computation.
July 21 - Non-profits
The Senate and House passed bipartisan legislation to help nonprofits remain financially viable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 10 -
The unemployment rate fell to 11.1 percent, as employees returned to work despite the ongoing spread of COVID-19.
July 2 -
In response to the coronavirus, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury are giving renewable energy companies more time to develop projects using sources such as wind and geothermal.
May 28 -
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to close a loophole in the CARES Act.
May 22 -
The decision, prompted by requests from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, reverses previous IRS guidance.
May 7 -
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to enable small businesses to deduct their expenses even if they have received a loan from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Protection Program that was later forgiven.
May 6 -
Leaders of Congress’s tax-writing committees want employers to be able to continue providing health insurance to their furloughed employees and still qualify for tax credits.
May 5 -
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have released separate sets of tax proposals aimed at alleviating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, in contrast to the two bipartisan bills that have been signed into law already.
March 20 -
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have introduced legislation to block the Treasury Department from providing a way for multinational corporations to choose the lowest available tax rate.
February 13 -
A group of 27 Democratic senators is calling for action in the Senate Finance Committee on extending energy-related tax credits and examining new tax proposals, especially those that incentivize renewable energy projects.
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