Hurricane Ike

Corporate

Hurricane Ike Provisional Tax Relief
ByKelly Phillips Erb September 16, 2008May 6, 2020

On Monday, I was scrambling to get my own corporate tax returns prepared and filed by the end of the business day. I can’t imagine trying to manage them without any power… Yet, that’s exactly what the victims of Hurricane Ike were facing. Fortunately, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that taxpayers and tax…

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State and local tax (SALT)

Texas Governors Gives Texans Affected By Ike A Break
ByKelly Phillips Erb September 15, 2008May 6, 2020

Texas Governor Rick Perry offered Texans affected by Hurricane Ike a new kind of tax break: no hotel taxes. Governor Perry has suspended hotel taxes for 14 days in response to the mandatory evacuations from Hurricane Ike. The emergency proclamation waived all state, city and county hotel occupancy taxes through September 21st. The waiver is…

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