Finance, investment and tax-related legislation

Finishing a bipartisan plan is pivotal to getting all Democrats on board with a budget outline setting up a $3.5 trillion package.

Accounting gimmicks may be needed to keep the federal government from defaulting.

The Senate Finance Committee chairman's legislation would streamline the 199A deduction for qualified business income, allowing accountants, lawyers, doctors and others to qualify, but phasing out above $400,000.

So far, the Speaker of the House has been relegated to the sidelines in the stalled Senate debate over a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint.

The bill would expand eligibility for the “pass-through” deduction to lawyers, accountants or doctors making above certain income thresholds.

The Senate Majority Leader will take a preliminary step Monday that would lead to a first test vote on the infrastructure plan by Wednesday. He set the same day as a deadline for all Senate Democrats to unite behind a budget blueprint.

The increased funding for the IRS as a way to boost tax revenue was dropped after it emerged that Democrats intend to include the measure in their bigger budget bill.

Democrats may include at least a partial expansion of the state and local income tax deduction in the $3.5 trillion budget outline that Senate Democrats agreed upon this week.

President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats to act boldly on his sweeping social and economic agenda Wednesday, as they began hashing out details of an $3.5 trillion tax and spending agreement that marks a crucial step forward for his plan.

Senate Democrats are moving to impose tariffs on carbon-intensive imports as a way to help pay for their tax-and-spending legislation, according to one person familiar with the plan.