Tax

Bill Gates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all want the rich to pay more taxes, but Gates is saying what the Democratic candidates appear to be thinking: Go for the capital gains rate.

European Union finance ministers agreed to add 10 countries to a blacklist of alleged tax havens, including the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda, despite last-minute push-back by some EU nations.

The relief is conditioned on the partnerships providing the missing information in a separate schedule by March 15, 2020.

Each checklist was developed based on a need, at that time, and at times I use almost every one — though some much more than others.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie added momentum to the idea of taxing non-resident owners of multi-million dollar apartments as a way to help pay for billions of dollars of regional transit improvements.

The Internal Revenue Service is considering issuing rules that could invalidate some of the last remaining strategies in New York and Connecticut to circumvent the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction cap that kicked in for the 2018 tax year.

A pair of House Democrats has introduced a bill to extend the tax-filing deadline until May 20 to give taxpayers more time to file their taxes.

What types of businesses don’t qualify for QOZ investment, and which types of taxpayers are best suited for the program?

The average tax refund check is nearly identical to last year’s average refund, increasing less than 1 percent to $3,068 in 2019.

Politicians from New York, New Jersey and other high-tax states may be making a lot of noise, but the new $10,000 limit on deductions for state and local taxes, or SALT, isn’t going anywhere any time soon.