Month: January 2022

Apartment buildings on the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Manhattan rents hit their highest level ever for a December as the supply of apartments plummeted and landlords started demanding double-digit increases. The average apartment rent in Manhattan hit $4,440 in December, while the more widely
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The upcoming tax-filing season is shaping up to be a chaotic one. The National Taxpayer Advocate on Wednesday released a report to Congress detailing processing issues at the IRS last year and also offering a warning for this year’s tax season, which will begin when the agency starts accepting 2021 returns on Jan. 24. “I
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As my colleague Elaine Maag noted the other day, Democrats are squabbling again (or is it still) over how to structure the Child Tax Credit. Some want to be sure that very low-income households get the full credit. Others want to reduce or even eliminate benefits for higher-income households.   Many solutions to the high-income
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Pallets of depleted lithium-ion batteries at JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials are ready for recycling. Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, founder and CEO of battery recycling firm Redwood Materials, has good news and bad news for those who believe electric vehicle sales are primed to take off.  Straubel says demand is picking up, but the auto industry isn’t
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Dai Sugano | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of federal fraud
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The Internal Revenue Service announced yesterday that the 2022 filing season will open January 24, and tax returns for individual U.S. taxpayers are due on April 18. Tax season is especially cumbersome for those who buy, sell, trade or invest in digital assets such as cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs. Unlike your average brokerage
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In this article DAL Flight attendants hand out refreshments to a packed Delta Airlines flight traveling from Ronald Regan National Airport to MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport on Friday, May 21, 2021. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Delta Air Lines sent the country’s largest flight attendant union a cease-and-desist letter after its
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