What Individuals and Businesses Need to Know About the American Taxpayer Relief Act
Tax Questions to Ask Yourself with the End of 2012 and the Fiscal Cliff Approaching
Maryland Governor Wes Moore is expected to sign (if he has not by the date of this publication) House Bill 0350 in the coming weeks. The final version of the bill includes several major tax increases to address budget...more
Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with Peter Roskam,”...more
The gift tax annual exclusion allows a taxpayer to gift a certain amount to a recipient each year without using any of the taxpayer’s lifetime exemption amount. In 2022, the annual exclusion amount was $16,000, or $32,000 for...more
Despite Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-West Virginia) recent announcement that he would not support a comprehensive version of Build Back Better, we expect Congress will advance some parts of the legislation early in 2022. The...more
The House Committee of Ways and Means (the “House”) has been busy the last few days. Indeed, the House continues to mark up and work through potential revenue raisers (i.e., tax increases) to help pay for recent legislative...more
I have been posting my articles on JD Supra since August 2012. I am grateful to JD Supra for helping me to spread the tax gospel of Nowotny to readers. As of today, my articles have had 523,887 views. If my Mom and Dad (of...more
Go After Real Estate? During the 2020 presidential campaign, there was one segment of the “rich” for which then-candidate Biden seemed to have reserved some of his harshest criticism – wealthy real estate investors....more
Four months into the 117th United States Congress, the anticipated federal legislative proposals to restructure the federal estate tax are finally seeing the light of day. Senator Bernie Sanders and others recently...more
According to Justice Learned Hand, “Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to...more
As part of his campaign platform, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has released a tax plan which may significantly increase the capital gain tax. Specifically, the platform includes a proposal to eliminate the...more