Tax planning

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, a crucial swing vote for Democrats, has given the Biden administration a list of specific tax policies she will support in order to raise revenue for the social spending plan Democrats hope to pass this year.

The president’s tax agenda, crafted by experts who worked on the proposals for years and wrote books about their ideas, is getting a wholesale revamp as Democrats battle to find a program their caucus can unite behind.

The former Treasury secretary is concerned about the potential knock-on effects of a proposed levy on the super-wealthy.

Senate Democrats detailed their proposed levy on the ultra-wealthy, a new and logistically risky approach to taxation.

Some House lawmakers raised doubts about the terms of the deal and whether differences could be resolved in the next few days.

The Senate Republican leader ridiculed a tax plan targeting the unrealized capital gains of the ultra wealthy as a “harebrained scheme.”

A failure to use tax data may represent a major missed opportunity, however.

Hikes in the top tax rates are off the table, although a “billionaire’s tax” on unrealized capital gains is under discussion.

There is increased momentum for an income tax on $1 billion or more in annual income, or three consecutive years of $100 million or more in income.

The NCAA began allowing university athletes to earn money from their name, image and likeness this summer, and now they could find themselves owing taxes for the first time in their lives.