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Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Charitable Giving Appears To Have Fallen In 2018, Despite Treasury Claims

On March 3, the Treasury Department put out a press release saying that 2018’s charitable giving “appeared largely unchanged from previous years,” despite a “concern...
March 6, 2020C. Eugene Steuerle
Business Taxes: TaxVox

Is the TCJA An Accountants’ Bonanza Or Nightmare?

In a Harvard Business Review article last December, I described how the complex and poorly vetted provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)...
June 12, 2018Eric Toder
State and Local Issues: TaxVox

A Little-Publicized Incentive In The New Tax Law Could Become America’s Largest Economic Development Program

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a new federal incentive—Opportunity Zones—to spur investment in poor and undercapitalized communities. These incentives could become the nation’s...
March 27, 2018Brett Theodos
: TaxVox

Corporate Tax Reform: Not All About the Rates

About last year’s inversion rush… The US corporate tax rate, highest among industrialized nations at 35 percent, was driving companies to switch mailing addresses in return for lower tax rates, right? Not so fast. A Reuters analysis finds that the taxes paid by the six largest inversion-seeking
February 10, 2015Renu Zaretsky