Month: January 2022

Seniors, particularly those at the moment of retirement, need more “just-in-time” support for financial decision making to help promote effective action, such as understanding tradeoffs; risks and costs involved in the specific decision; finding a trusted source of information and advice; and avoiding fraud and scams, a new report from the Senate Aging Committee has
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E-filing of individual tax returns for the 2022 filing season opens on January 24. The tax deadline is Monday, April 18, 2022. Until recently the opening of individual e-filing began on the Tuesday after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. In 2021 individual e-filing didn’t open until February 12. In 2020 it opened on January
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In this article VIAC Still from “Scream.” Paramount Pictures The latest installment in the “Scream” franchise opens this weekend to a movie theater industry threatened by a rapid rise in coronavirus cases fueled by the more transmissible omicron variant. December’s release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was able to defy Covid concerns to become the
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When considering any cryptocurrency investment, billionaire investor Mark Cuban looks for utility in each project. That’s why, to him, “tokens trading are the least important part of crypto,” he tweeted on Tuesday. Instead, Cuban sees smart contracts, or collections of code that power decentralized applications, and how they’re used within projects as the most important
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Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about how to take spousal benefits while delaying retirement benefits till 70, whether forming an LLC will avoid the effects of the earnings test and when divorced spousal benefits can be available. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
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A recent Tax Notes International article provides a useful reminder about the nature of global tax competition: The Irish government might soon adopt a participation exemption. That’s a fancy way of saying Ireland might replace its worldwide corporate tax regime with a territorial regime. Many American readers will have the same reaction: “Doesn’t Ireland already have a territorial system?”
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Sinenkiy | iStock | Getty Images Social Security beneficiaries are receiving the highest cost-of-living adjustment in decades, thanks to rising inflation. That 5.9% increase went into effect in January. Prices have continued to climb higher since that change was announced in October. The Consumer Price Index, a government measure for price changes for certain goods,
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