A small business owner in Chinatown, San Francisco Source: CNBC Beginning April 6, small businesses and non-profits can apply for up to 24 months of relief, with a maximum loan amount of $500,000, the Small Business Administration announced Wednesday. The previous limit for such businesses was six months, with a maximum loan amount of $150,000.
“Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes raised. Period. Bingo.” – Joe Biden, May 22, 2020 Enacting good tax policy is hard under the best of circumstances. President Biden made it immeasurably harder, if not impossible, by promising to spare everyone earning less than $400,000—more than 95 percent of Americans—from any tax increases. By
These days there are real estate investors doing great work in developing communities. Real estate investors Cory Nemoto and Audrey Kikos are demonstrating the benefits real estate investors can bring to communities and individuals. Cory Nemoto, co-owner and founder of KÉCŌ Capital, a private real estate lending company based in Honolulu, Hawaii, that flips houses in
By Steven Schragis, Next Avenue How many times have you heard people say, “I can’t wait for things to go back to the way they were before the pandemic.”? I was one of those people, stuck in my ways and not wanting to face what would happen to my adult-education business, One Day University, if
A medical syringe and vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo in this illustration photo taken on 18 November 2020. STR | NurPhoto | Getty Images U.S. health officials released a bizarre statement early Tuesday that AstraZeneca may have based its Covid-19 vaccine trial results on outdated information. The company’s fumble was
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Intel (INTC) – Intel said it would spend $20 billion to build two new plants at existing facilities in Arizona, in an effort to grab more market shares and fill gaps created by a worldwide chip shortage. Intel aims to start production at
When the Lucid Air luxury sedan EV hits the market in 2022, it’s expected to break records. One of those records would be Lucid Air’s expected ability to drive up to 517 miles on a single charge, which would top any other electric production vehicle. Lucid has also promised that the Lucid Air will be
Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors are finally getting a look at GameStop‘s fundamentals following a Reddit-fueled trading frenzy earlier this year. Here’s what the company did after the bell Tuesday. It released quarterly results that missed Wall Street’s estimates. In its latest executive shake-up, the company named former Amazon and Google executive
ozgurcankaya The IRS recently extended the filing deadline for individual tax returns to May 17 from April 15. You may still want to file by the original date. That’s because the extension only applies to individual returns, from taxpayers who file an IRS Form 1040. For people who make estimated tax payments, including the self-employed
You should not solely rely on amounts reported on IRS Form 1099-K to prepare your crypto taxes. Since this tax form doesn’t take cost basis information into consideration, amounts reported are overstated significantly. Reporting these numbers on your tax return without accounting for cost basis will lead to inaccurate capital gains and a higher tax
Pacaso, a marketplace for second homes, has raised $75 million in Series B financing that gives the five-month old business a valuation north of $1 billion, the company announced on Wednesday. Pacaso, which was founded by CEO Austin Allison and Zillow cofounder Spencer Rascoff, has raised over $90 million to date. The company specializes in
Now that the latest COVID-19 relief package has been signed into law, the Biden administration is poised to tackle broader issues – from climate change to immigration reform. Already, there are strong disagreements on these and other policy areas as Congress and the nation remain deeply divided. But, there are a few issues that enjoy
Branding for the vaccination program on the clothing of a staff outside a community vaccination center administering the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine imported by Fosun Pharma in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Chan Long Hei | Bloomberg via Getty Images Shares of China’s Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group fell after Hong Kong and Macao
Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer is temporarily dialing back his appetite for stocks. On the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 bottom, he’s telling investors the market is in “no man’s land.” “We’re in this period where the Russell 1000 growth mega cap stocks aren’t oversold anymore and the cyclical or economic recovery theme isn’t extreme overbought
Major banks around the world are still financing fossil fuel companies to the tune of trillions of dollars. A new report, published Wednesday from a collection of climate organizations and titled Banking on Climate Chaos 2021, finds 60 of the world’s largest commercial and investment banks have collectively put $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from
. Catherine Falls Commercial | Moment | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be moving to extend the national eviction moratorium that has been in effect since September and is now scheduled to expire at the end of March. The CDC has sent a proposal to the Office of Management and
In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Martin A. Sullivan of Tax Notes and Tynisa Gaines, an enrolled agent, discuss the tax provisions of the new coronavirus relief package and its impact on the economy and the tax community. David Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes Today International. This week: tax
A funny-but-unfair potshot the American housing industry gets is this: It’s a 200-year-old industry undeterred by progress. That’s the glib narrative, and it’s at least part-true. What the one-liner belies, however, is that invention and progress have sent shivers of light, excitement, and possibility through U.S. housing and construction’s $3-trillion-a-year firmament, especially of late. Three
Though it requires patience, as it takes time for the initial policy creation costs to be recovered and for cash value to accumulate, long-term investors may find that the long-term net returns on cash value accumulation within a whole life policy may be competitive with the fixed-income returns a household could otherwise obtain from traditional
The Northern Navajo Medical Center is shown as staff inside begin to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on December 16, 2020 in Shiprock, New Mexico. Medical staff at the Northern Navajo Medical Center are among the first in the Navajo Nation to receive their Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations today. Micah Garen | Getty Images News | Getty Images