Month: September 2021

Michael Lee | Moment | Getty Images There were fewer small businesses open and hourly employees working in August relative to July, indicating that the Covid-19 delta variant may be dampening the U.S. economic recovery, according to data from Homebase, which supplies employee scheduling software to employers. The number of employees working dropped 4% in
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In this installment of In the Pages, Robert Goulder of Tax Notes and Ruth Mason of the University of Virginia School of Law discuss the reasoning behind the OECD/G-20’s two-pillar agreement compromise and debate whether a final agreement will be unanimously approved. Here are a few highlights from their discussion, edited for length and clarity. Robert Goulder: Hello everyone.
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In this article PFIZER-IN Juan Rodriguez (L) reacts while receiving Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Covid-19 vaccine administered by vocational nurse Christina Garibay at a Skid Row community outreach event where Covid-19 vaccines and testing were offered in Los Angeles, California on August 22, 2021. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Covid-19 vaccines are
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Today’s column addresses questions about recalculation of benefits after earning continuing income, how the family maximum that can be claimed on a single record is calculated and how divorced spousal benefits are calculated for business owners. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning,
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A recent Tax Court case considered its jurisdiction when the IRS erroneously included a denied innocent-spouse relief claim for a prior year in a later determination for another year. As the case holds, that later determination can effectively revive the Tax Court’s jurisdiction over the denied claim for the prior year because of its inclusion
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Jianbi Chen | iStock | Getty Images Now that struggling renters are no longer protected by a national ban on evictions, it has become even more pressing for those households to get approved for federal rental assistance. Congress has allocated more than $45 billion in rental assistance to address the crisis hitting tenants and their
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