Month: September 2021

The highly controversial Infrastructure bill is being looked at by the Ways and Means Committee. The Committee of Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. The Committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures and a number of other revenue-generating programs. Ways and Means
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House Ways and Means Committee ChairmanRep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., (left) and ranking member Kevin Brady, R-Texas. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images House Democrats on Monday revealed a package of tax hikes on corporations and the rich without President Joseph Biden‘s proposed levy on inherited property at death, according to an outline
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The dizzying gains in home prices seen earlier this year may have peaked, according to data from House Canary. That doesn’t mean it’s bargain-basement time. The median listing price increased 7% in August’s last week from a year earlier, compared with a 16% annualized gain in May, according to a House Canary report. The median
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The House Ways & Means Committee has released draft legislation of individual tax hikes they propose to pay for the $3.5 trillion social policy budget plan under consideration. It includes major revisions to the estate tax, capital gains taxes and the way retirement accounts are taxed. The top capital gains tax rate would be 25%.
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Self-awareness is an important workplace trait — and, as CNBC’s Shepard Smith says, a potentially double-edged sword. “I am not here to be your token,” Smith recently said at the Association of LGBTQ Journalists 2021 National Convention. “I don’t want to be the gay journalist, I want to be the journalist who is gay.” Smith,
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UpperCut Images | UpperCut Images | Getty Images Student athletes and their parents have likely heard that the NCAA has opened the door to allow collegiate athletes the ability to profit off their name, image and likeness. The NCAA policy, which took effect in July 1, will allow college athletes and recruits to make money
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The recent Social Security trustees report projected that the combined Trust Funds for Social Security retirement and disability benefits (officially called the Old-Age and Survivors Disability Insurance benefits, or OASDI) would be exhausted in 2034. These projections use the Social Security actuaries’ best estimate for various assumptions to project the system’s operations over the next
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It increasingly seems as if tax laws will now be made largely through the budget process, which will likely usher in a host of fast and furious changes. Here is what to expect as Congress charges ahead toward a reconciliation bill. Reconciliation might not actually be finished in September. The committees have a deadline of September 15
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