Like it or not, we face a hard fiscal truth. Uncle Sam, like the rest of us, has a budget constraint. Economists call it the government’s intertemporal budget constraint (IBC). It’s as fundamental an equation in economics as the conservation of energy is in physics. It’s also called the No Ponzi-Scheme Condition. It rules out
Taxes
The conviction of Donald Stanley Lavigne on seven counts of knowingly and fraudulently filing false income tax returns and three counts of other false statements relating to bankruptcy was somewhat curious. The income tax issue was omitting 1099-MISC income from being an insurance broker. The total income involved averaged just over $50,000 per year for
Robert Goulder of Tax Notes and Jefferson VanderWolk of Squire Patton Boggs (US) discuss the problems with the OECD’s pillar 2 UTPR, formerly known as the undertaxed profits or undertaxed payments rule. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Robert Goulder: Welcome to the latest edition of In the Pages, I’m Bob Goulder,
Tax day is April 18 this year, but now disaster-area taxpayers in most of California and parts of Alabama and Georgia have until Oct. 16 to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The IRS previously postponed the deadline to May 15 for these areas. The IRS is offering relief
The 2023 tax-return season is unlike others in recent memory for employees who have equity compensation, whether stock options, restricted stock units, employee stock purchase plans, and/or and company shares. The impact of the down and volatile markets of 2022 can complicate your tax return. Another increasingly common issue for tax reporting involves interstate employee