In This Issue: - Tax Tidbit - Legislative Lowdown - RegWatch - 1111 Constitution Avenue - At a Glance - Brownstein Bookshelf - Regulation Station ...more
In This Issue - - Tax Tidbit - Legislative Lowdown - RegWatch - 1111 Constitution Avenue - 2020 Vision - At a Glance - Brownstein Bookshelf...more
The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 Passes Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate - Late in the day on December 15, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting...more
The number of additional months of funding for transportation projects under a $8 billion bill introduced late last night in the House. Notably — as anyone on Sesame Street could tell you — the number 5 is not the same as the...more
NUMBER OF THE WEEK: 3,415. The number of people who renounced their citizenship in 2014 according to IRS data. This is one of the five highest totals on record since the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance...more
Just days before the 2014 tax season draws to a close, new legislation was enacted in D.C. to provide a one-year retroactive extension for over 50 tax benefits and incentives which had expired in 2014. The one-year extension...more
Welcome Tax Relief Provided to Individuals and Businesses Extended through Calendar Year 2014 - The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 retroactively extends, through Dec. 31, various individual and business tax relief...more
TWO WEEKS ONLY! SAVE NOW! Congress has finally approved the extenders bill in what is widely viewed as terrible tax policy, but a welcome holiday gift nonetheless. The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 extended a...more
Earlier today, President Obama signed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (H.R. 5771) into law, following its passage through Congress on Tuesday. Among other things, the act will provide a one-year retroactive extension...more
Congress this week passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (the Act), which is expected to be signed by President Obama at any time. The Act renews or extends a number of expired or expiring provisions. Some of the...more
On December 16, 2014, the Senate voted 76-16 to pass H.R. 5771, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (“TIPA”), which was passed by the House by a vote of 378-46 on December 3, 2014. TIPA would extend over fifty (50)...more
Last week, President Obama threatened to veto an agreement between Senate Democrats and House Republicans on a collection of tax breaks known as “tax extenders.” The deal would have been a huge win for manufacturing, because...more
The clock is running out on the 113th Congress. While the calendar says we are not quite at the two-minute warning, with a truncated September congressional schedule and the campaign season taking up much of the fall, the...more