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Jun 6, 2023
After months of negotiations over raising the debt limit, an agreement, in the form of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), has become law. And while the deal to raise the debt...
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Jun 1, 2023
Whenever a new half-baked state tax idea springs up, those familiar with such matters can usually guess the state responsible within two guesses. For years, New York and California...
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May 22, 2023
The IRS recently announced that it will launch a free-to-use e-filing pilot program next year. But taxpayers should look past the appealing word “free” in that phrase and...
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May 15, 2023
In the beginning of 2022, after a delay and an overridden governor’s veto, Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax targeting digital advertising went into effect. Due to the...
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May 8, 2023
In June of 2018, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, allowing states to require remote retailers to collect and remit sales taxes even in states...
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May 2, 2023
The pandemic changed so much about how Americans work, but it also changed where they work. Suddenly, millions of Americans no longer had to live within commuting distance of their...
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Apr 26, 2023
Since 2018, states have been able to assess sales tax collection obligations on online businesses even if they have no physical presence in that state. That’s caused a whole...
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Apr 17, 2023
Back in 2021, the IRS was handed a decisive defeat in court. After years of fighting, the IRS was definitively told that it does, in fact, have to follow the law, even when...
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Apr 10, 2023
Even though it faces a potential Supreme Court crackdown, the Biden administration’s end-around of Congress to unilaterally grant over $400 billion in student loan forgiveness...
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Mar 30, 2023
When the National Taxpayers Union Foundation released its study on states’ tax policies affecting remote and mobile workers, the 2023 Remote Obligations and Mobility (ROAM)...
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Mar 22, 2023
It’s a seemingly rare case where the safeguards in the system worked as intended. After Maryland’s legislature passed into law a tax on digital advertising, it was...
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Mar 13, 2023
Most of the time, claims that taxation is “theft” are esoteric. Minnesota, however, has been working to perfect a form of taxation that is hard to describe any other...
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Mar 6, 2023
This past week, the Supreme Court decided on a case that, while ostensibly a ruling over somewhat esoteric legal issues, was in truth a decision over whether Delaware gets to...
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Feb 28, 2023
As with any major economic shift, some governments will see remote work as an opportunity, while others will see it as a threat. States and localities that view remote work as a...
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Feb 21, 2023
Most Americans who use streaming services probably wouldn’t have a hard time coming up with a list of their biggest gripes with the platforms. They would probably name things...
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Feb 13, 2023
In this year’s State of the Union address, President Biden once again touted his proposal to target the unrealized gains of wealthy individuals. Unfortunately, it has not...
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Feb 6, 2023
On the rare occasions when elected representatives are required to reckon with our national debt, usually in the context of debates over raising the debt ceiling, the easiest thing...
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Jan 30, 2023
One of the most lasting changes wrought by the pandemic is proving to be how and where Americans work. Gallup data on workers capable of working remotely shows that, while 60 percent...
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Jan 25, 2023
It’s an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth tax legislation introduced...
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Jan 18, 2023
Taxpayers got a rare win at the end of last year when a Massachusetts court struck down a bizarre “cookie nexus” law that the state had enforced for years. Unfortunately,...
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Jan 9, 2023
It sounds like a classic case of corporations taking advantage of workers — provisions attached to a contract that prevent that worker from switching to work for competitors....
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Jan 3, 2023
Thousands of flights have been canceled over the past couple weeks as the transit system has been rocked by weather. One airline in particular, Southwest Airlines, has struggled to...
Jun 6, 2023After months of negotiations over raising the debt limit, an agreement, in the form of the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), has become law. And while the deal to raise the debt...
Jun 1, 2023Whenever a new half-baked state tax idea springs up, those familiar with such matters can usually guess the state responsible within two guesses. For years, New York and California...
May 22, 2023The IRS recently announced that it will launch a free-to-use e-filing pilot program next year. But taxpayers should look past the appealing word “free” in that phrase and...
May 15, 2023In the beginning of 2022, after a delay and an overridden governor’s veto, Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax targeting digital advertising went into effect. Due to the...
May 8, 2023In June of 2018, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, allowing states to require remote retailers to collect and remit sales taxes even in states...
May 2, 2023The pandemic changed so much about how Americans work, but it also changed where they work. Suddenly, millions of Americans no longer had to live within commuting distance of their...
Apr 26, 2023Since 2018, states have been able to assess sales tax collection obligations on online businesses even if they have no physical presence in that state. That’s caused a whole...
Apr 17, 2023Back in 2021, the IRS was handed a decisive defeat in court. After years of fighting, the IRS was definitively told that it does, in fact, have to follow the law, even when...
Apr 10, 2023Even though it faces a potential Supreme Court crackdown, the Biden administration’s end-around of Congress to unilaterally grant over $400 billion in student loan forgiveness...
Mar 30, 2023When the National Taxpayers Union Foundation released its study on states’ tax policies affecting remote and mobile workers, the 2023 Remote Obligations and Mobility (ROAM)...
Mar 22, 2023It’s a seemingly rare case where the safeguards in the system worked as intended. After Maryland’s legislature passed into law a tax on digital advertising, it was...
Mar 13, 2023Most of the time, claims that taxation is “theft” are esoteric. Minnesota, however, has been working to perfect a form of taxation that is hard to describe any other...
Mar 6, 2023This past week, the Supreme Court decided on a case that, while ostensibly a ruling over somewhat esoteric legal issues, was in truth a decision over whether Delaware gets to...
Feb 28, 2023As with any major economic shift, some governments will see remote work as an opportunity, while others will see it as a threat. States and localities that view remote work as a...
Feb 21, 2023Most Americans who use streaming services probably wouldn’t have a hard time coming up with a list of their biggest gripes with the platforms. They would probably name things...
Feb 13, 2023In this year’s State of the Union address, President Biden once again touted his proposal to target the unrealized gains of wealthy individuals. Unfortunately, it has not...
Feb 6, 2023On the rare occasions when elected representatives are required to reckon with our national debt, usually in the context of debates over raising the debt ceiling, the easiest thing...
Jan 30, 2023One of the most lasting changes wrought by the pandemic is proving to be how and where Americans work. Gallup data on workers capable of working remotely shows that, while 60 percent...
Jan 25, 2023It’s an old aphorism that if you tax something, you get less of it. Seven states are at risk of finding out exactly how that truism applies to wealth tax legislation introduced...
Jan 18, 2023Taxpayers got a rare win at the end of last year when a Massachusetts court struck down a bizarre “cookie nexus” law that the state had enforced for years. Unfortunately,...
Jan 9, 2023It sounds like a classic case of corporations taking advantage of workers — provisions attached to a contract that prevent that worker from switching to work for competitors....
Jan 3, 2023Thousands of flights have been canceled over the past couple weeks as the transit system has been rocked by weather. One airline in particular, Southwest Airlines, has struggled to...