Guest Post: Roadways And Taxes
It’s time for guest posts! Today, Charles W. Horn III of the Commonwealth Trust Company, considers how to pay for all of those cars on the roadways. Should it be more taxes?
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Guest Post: Pros And Cons Of The Federal Estate Tax
It’s time for guest posts! Today, Bob Rywick, Editor and Author with the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, sheds some light on the reasons for and against the federal estate tax.
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Guest Post: The Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax
It’s time for guest posts! Today, attorney Steven Chung, explains the challenge of a vehicle miles traveled tax.
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Guest Post: On The Tax Code, Time for America to Have it Our Way
It’s time for guest posts! Today, Dr. Elaine C. Kamarck of the RATE Coalition tackles corporate inversions.
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Guest Post: When Income Tax Cuts Masquerade As Estate Tax Repeal
It’s time for guest posts! Today, Josh Hoxie of the Director of the Project on Taxation and Opportunity at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) discusses the federal estate tax and its relationship to income tax.
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NY Man Who Died During Arrest Attempt Allegedly Targeted For Selling Untaxed Cigarettes
In New York City, a pack of Marlboro Reds will cost you nearly $13.00. That’s because not only does New York State charge $4.35 per pack on cigarettes – the highest tax, by state, on cigarettes in the country – but New York City tax adds an additional $1.50, bringing the combined local/state tax rate…
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Russia Considers Going Progressive When It Comes To Tax
Quick: which major city holds the title of “billionaire” capital of the world? Not New York. Not Hong Kong. Not London. The answer is Moscow. The Russian capital has consistently held the title as eighty-four of the world’s richest, worth a total of over $366 billion, make the city their home. While most of Russia’s…
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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Landmark Case On Whether States May Tax Income Earned In Other States
Do states have the right to tax income earned in other states? That’s one of the issues raised in Comptroller v. Wynne, a Maryland case which the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this year.
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Congress, Ignoring History, Considers Turning Over Tax Debts To Private Collection Agencies
The tax gap in the United States is estimated to be about $385 billion. The tax gap is the difference between what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) expects to collect in taxes and what they actually collect. That sounds like a lot of money. And I agree that it is. But considering that the IRS…
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Tax Extenders Bill Stalled In Senate
Remember that Tax Extenders Bill that seemed to be moving ahead? Consider it stalled. Amid a flurry of proposed amendments to the bill, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) moved to consider a cloture motion on Amendment No. 3060 to H.R. 3474. H.R. 3474 is the Hire More Heroes Act, originally intended “[t]o amend the Internal Revenue…