Episode 26: Talking Tax Reform and Executive Comp
The Philadelphia City Council returned today after a summer recess, with all eyes fixed on the future of the proposed Sixers arena in Center City and potential developments regarding business tax cuts based on the upcoming...more
Navigating K-Street for the C-Suite- “A President Harris’ policies would likely be similar to those of President Biden, with some notable exceptions. But her differing governing priorities and style are what would set her...more
FY25 Budget Will Not Include Wage, Business Tax Cuts City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas (At Large) confirmed Thursday that Philadelphia’s FY25 budget will not include cuts to wage or business tax rates. This decision comes...more
Our Federal & International Tax Group covers notable business and individual tax proposals revealed by the Biden Administration in this year’s Green Book....more
The Revenue Estimating Conference forecasted Iowa’s revenues for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, predicting a slight decline but emphasizing a strong overall budget. Governor Kim Reynolds is required to use this estimate as the...more
Ohio’s Biennial Budget Bill (H.B. 33) was signed into law by Governor DeWine on July 4, 2023. The Bill focused on investments to boost Ohio economic development, education, and healthcare, but also included significant cuts...more
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order on February 16, 2022 intended to stop an increase in vehicle property taxes for 2022. Used car values in Kentucky have risen approximately 40% since last year, from...more
Federal interest rates were largely stable in August of 2021.The August applicable federal rate ("AFR") for use with a sale to a defective grantor trust, self-canceling installment note ("SCIN") or intra-family loan with a...more
Massachusetts has fined Chipotle $1.4 million as part of a settlement with the restaurant chain over accusations that “it routinely violated [state] labor laws, with authorities estimating more than 13,000 violations from...more
As expected, the House last week passed all three bills in the GOP’s Tax Reform 2.0 package – just before members departed for their month-plus-long recess. Here’s how the votes went down....more
The House today is likely to approve legislation to make permanent the individual and small-business tax cuts that Congress enacted in 2017, but the Senate won’t consider the measure before the November midterm elections....more
The House Rules Committee will convene on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. to write a rule for the floor consideration of the Tax Reform 2.0 bills. This means that floor debate and votes could take place as early as Thursday,...more
Building off of last year’s sweeping tax overhaul, the House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would make key provisions of that law permanent. But while most of the tax policies endorsed by the committee...more
The House Ways and Means Committee today marked up and approved the GOP’s Tax Reform 2.0 package. Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) offered three amendments in the nature of a substitute, which would make a series of minor clerical...more
The House Ways and Means Committee today released three bills as part of Tax Reform 2.0: - 1. H.R. 6760 – Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act, a bill addressing the individual and small business tax cuts...more
Tax Reform 2.0 - The House Ways and Means Committee today released three one-pagers on Tax Reform 2.0 – nothing groundbreaking here. The documents simply reiterate the three main goals of Tax Reform 2.0...more
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady has just released a two-page framework for Tax Cuts 2.0. As expected, the outline contains no policy specifics but highlights three major themes for the upcoming bill: - 1. Protect...more
It looks like Tax Cuts 2.0 will incorporate a part of the Senate’s Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act or RESA (S. 2526) — which, among other things, would make it easier for small businesses to join multiple employer...more
Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will release an outline for Tax Cuts 2.0 before the House departs for August recess this week. House GOP tax writers are meeting again today before the rollout....more
The “listening sessions” for Tax Cuts 2.0 have begun. Ways and Means Republicans gathered last week to discuss which tax provisions should go into the forthcoming legislative package. Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady is...more
House Republicans are preparing to hit the campaign trails with another tax-cut package in tow. Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) is hoping to provide a public preview of Tax Cuts 2.0 in August; this should give...more
Tax Reform 2.0 may get a summer release according to House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX). Brady said that GOP members of his tax-writing committee have been meeting regularly to discuss the forthcoming package —...more
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) is insisting that a second round of tax cuts (dubbed “Tax Cuts 2.0”) is a real thing. If Brady’s recent statements to reporters were to be taken seriously, Tax Cuts...more
Talks of doing another round of tax cuts bubbled up again over the spring break recess. As the Tax Policy Update team previously reported, House Republicans are considering teeing up a second package of tax cuts for a vote...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Omnibus. While negotiations on the Omnibus appropriations bill are said to be almost completed with the possibility of it being on the House floor next week, there are still a...more