Month: September 2021

When the global chair position for Latham & Watkins LLP’s tax department opened up in 2016, partner Jiyeon Lee-Lim spoke up. At the time, Lee-Lim was a nearly 30-year veteran of the firm and a prominent tax partner on some of Latham’s most complex and high-profile transactions. When Liberty Global LBTYA  and Virgin Media combined in 2013, generating one of the largest cable deals ever,
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In this article COIN People watch as the logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Coinbase has received notice of a possible enforcement action from the Securities and Exchange Commission related
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Tim Robbins | Getty Images The U.S. is one of the few industrialized countries without a national paid family leave policy. Democratic lawmakers are expected to get a long-awaited chance to address that when budget reconciliation legislation comes up on Capitol Hill this month. Now, a new survey from the Bipartisan Policy Center and Morning
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Fears are receding of immediate state and city budget crises, due to the double impact of federal spending and restored economic and revenue growth.  But low interest rates and pent-up public spending needs are leading to a great deal of new state and local borrowing.  Are states and cities taking on too much debt? In 2020, falling revenues due
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September may historically be a rough month for stocks, but it didn’t stop National Securities’ Art Hogan from hiking his S&P 500 year-end target by 7%. He made the bullish move based on a strong second quarter earnings season and the notion Covid-19 delta variant cases are likely peaking. “September gives us a chance to
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U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., questions IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig at a June 8, 2021 Senate Finance Committee hearing. Tom Williams | Pool | Reuters Congressional Democrats are floating a slew of taxes to help cover their $3.5 trillion budget plan, including new levies on the wealthy.   Senate Finance Committee Chairman
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Phil Roeder Congressional Democrats are considering reforms to the 20% pass-through tax deduction as part of a $3.5 trillion federal spending package. Democrats’ proposal would phase out the tax break for business owners with taxable income exceeding $400,000, according to a discussion list obtained by CNBC. It would also make the tax cut available to
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The Social Security OASI Trust Fund for retirement benefits is projected to be exhausted by 2033, according to the summary of the Annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report that was released in August 2021. That’s one year earlier than what was projected in the 2020 trustees report. Does this mean that in 2033, retirees will receive nothing from
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