President Trump on February 9 signed the Bipartisan Budget Act into law after a brief government shutdown occurred overnight. The House approved the legislation, which contains a continuing resolution to fund the government and federal agencies through March 23, in the early morning hours of February 9,
Read more →Tax extenders and the state and local sales tax deduction continue to drive discussions on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed support for extending the expired tax breaks. At this time, talks have surfaced that the extenders could be part of a
Read more →There are 34 temporary tax provisions scheduled to expire at the end of 2016. These provisions can be categorized as primarily affecting individuals, businesses, or being energy-related. These categorizations follow those used in past “tax extender” legislation. Individuals Four individual tax provisions are scheduled to expire at
Read more →Both the House and Senate passed the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (PATH Act), and President Obama signed the legislation on Friday, December 18th, 2015, passing significant tax legislation since the passage of the American Tax Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA). The Act does
Read more →After much anticipation, Congress has passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (2014 Tax Prevention Act) to extend popular individual and business tax provisions retroactively for one year (through 2014). This one-year retroactive extension allows you to claim many popular tax incentives that expired on December
Read more →HR 4 – Jobs for America Act DIVISION I—WAYS AND MEANS TITLE I—SAVE AMERICAN WORKERS Sec. 101. Short title. Sec. 102. Repeal of 30-hour threshold for classification as full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replacement with
Read more →Lawmakers are likely to pass tax extender legislation during the lame-duck session of Congress in November and comprehensive tax reform as early as 2015, according to tax experts speaking during webcast sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP on October 28. According to Rohit Kumar and Scott McCandless, both principals
Read more →Negotiations over the fate of more than 50 tax extenders have continued over the Thanksgiving recess. Leaders in both the House and Senate have been in discussions over whether to extend the popular but temporary tax breaks or to make permanent some of the incentives and eliminate
Read more →A divided House Ways and Means Committee approved six bipartisan tax bills on April 29. The tax incentive measures, popularly known as tax extenders because they often lapse and are restored by Congress, were taken from a comprehensive tax reform package introduced by Committee Chairman Dave Camp,
Read more →There are dozens of temporary tax provisions that expired at the end of 2013. Most of these provisions have been part of past temporary tax extension legislation. Most recently, many temporary tax provisions were extended as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Collectively, temporary tax provisions
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