Month: December 2021

The drama over the attempts to raise the state and local tax deduction above the $10,000 limit included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has become more of a soap opera recently. The rehashed story line has gotten stale, but the furor over the limit has an irresistible political attraction that ensures its longevity.  Congress’s current
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Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Bill Clark | Bloomberg | Getty Images Foreign public companies that are listed in the United States may be delisted if their auditors do
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In a surprising move for a state that has long favored giving employers the freedom to do business with relatively few constraints, the Florida legislature and Governor DeSantis passed House Bill No. 1-B which prohibits any private employer from imposing a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for any full-time, part-time or contract employee without providing the individual
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The Republic of Singapore is a global financial center of around 5.7 million. The city-state is a contrast of cultures, offering a perfect blend of contemporary living that is unlike any other place in the world. Sammi Lim, founder and executive director of Brilliance Capital, knows the area, having 17 years of experience in development and
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s plan to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the emergence of the Omicron variant, during his visit to the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., December 2, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden on Thursday said his plan to fight Covid during the
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Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images More than $87 billion in unemployment benefits funded by the federal government was likely siphoned from the system during the Covid-19 pandemic, much of it due to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report. Congress authorized many new programs in the pandemic’s early
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In this article NOC Concept art of a “Starlab” space station Nanoracks NASA awarded a trio of companies with contracts to develop private space stations, as the agency prepares for the retirement of the International Space Station. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Nanoracks were awarded a combined $415.6 million under NASA’s Commercial LEO
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Colorado and New Mexico recently announced an innovative approach to managing their new state-facilitated retirement saving programs. Under a Memorandum of Cooperation, the Colorado Secure Savings Program and New Mexico Work and $ave will collaborate on program administration and financial services, marketing, data collection, and participant privacy. Such partnerships can provide a cost-effective way for
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Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about when spousal benefits may be available and how they can be paid, marriage and disability benefits and potential reductions due to filing early. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc. See more Ask Larry answers
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