Tax breaks

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP has managed to secure $11 million in opportunity zone funding for a client building a multifamily development in South St. Paul, Minnesota.

Sen. Ron Wyden proposes ending existing tax breaks for fossil fuels and creating new incentives for low-and-no carbon energy sources.

The service intends to take steps to automatically refund money starting in May and continuing through the summer.

The service released a FAQ to explain how students and universities should report emergency financial aid grants related to the pandemic.

Estimates suggest that the total of the net operating loss refunds may eventually top $25 billion.

With the passage of so much tax legislation over the past several years, there is tremendous opportunity for savings and planning.

For those with less than $150,000 in adjusted gross income who collected unemployment benefits this past year, the COVID relief bill allows them to receive up to $10,200 of those benefits tax-free.

The new venture enables CPA firms to help small-business owners secure employer-based tax help.

The Internal Revenue Service posted information about how to correctly compute the new exclusion on a portion of unemployment income as Congress pushes the IRS for further tax-filing relief.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is probing whether executives at four drug industry companies plan to use a pandemic-related tax break to deduct opioid settlement payments.