The rich are scrambling to do proactive tax planning before the House introduces draft legislation for its $3.5 trillion social policy plan.

Joseph J. Thorndike highlights how transformative the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 has been in tax policy and politics.

Before Washington considers adding benefits that would further increase costs, it must find a way to pay for the promises it’s already made.

While Washington continues to focus on raising your taxes, good news keeps on coming from various states.

Congress has proposed to end the Employee Retention Credit ("ERC") early — at the end of the 3rd quarter. The ERC has been vital to helping medium and small businesses as well as charities weather the pandemic. Congress mistakenly thought the pandemic was behind us — enter Delta. Time to rethink

Today's column addresses questions about how even with the deeming rules, it can still be possible to receive only retirement benefits before later spousal benefits, survivor's benefit rates is the record holder dies before claiming and how the WEP and the GPO work.

West Virginia announced the first round of winners of its $12,000 moving incentive program this week and it's drawing more Californians than from any other state.

Prompt government action, including unprecedented steps by the Federal Reserve and massive federal spending, kept state and local budgets from collapsing during the Covid-19 recession.

An IRS agent offers to buy cryptocurrency on LocalCryptos.com, leading them on to the trail of a dark web drug dealer, the agency claims in court documents.

Forever Is A Long Long Time One of the requirements of a qualified easement is that it be perpetual, which is a really long time and as a practical matter nothing on earth can be truly perpetual.