INCOME TAX NEWS
- Thousands Are Eligible for Tax Refunds From 2020 April 19, 2024The I.R.S. estimates that 940,000 people who didn’t file their returns for that year are due back money. The deadline for filing to get it is May 17.
- Rethinking the Ethics of Tax Deductions April 18, 2024Responses to an essay that suggested that the affluent forgo some deductions. Also: Aid to Ukraine; gun safety on the set; plastics and pollutants.
- Bidens Report Earning $620,000 and Paying $181,000 in Taxes in 2023 April 15, 2024The couple’s tax return showed a 7 percent jump in income from 2022, a result of higher taxable interest income this year.
- The Rich Don’t Have to Take Every Tax Deduction, and They Shouldn’t April 13, 2024Many exemptions are very hard, perhaps impossibly hard, to defend on either practical or moral grounds.
- Do You Wish You Lived in a Low-Tax State? April 11, 2024If paying taxes every year makes you think about moving, consider the state and local tax burden, which varies from state to state.
- Why Some Billionaires Will Back Trump April 4, 2024It’s about taxes — and a false belief in their own impunity.
- Why Biden Is Vowing to Raise Taxes March 27, 2024A “yes, new taxes” campaign violates every principle of American politics. But it’s the right choice for this moment.
- ‘Strike Madness’ Hits Germany While Its Economy Stumbles March 22, 2024A wave of strikes by German workers, feeling the sting of inflation and stagnant growth, is the latest sign of the bleak outlook for Europe’s economic powerhouse.
- Social Security and Medicare Are on the Ballot March 15, 2024Biden has a plan. Trump doesn’t but could wind up gutting those programs.
- Biden Budget Lays Out Battle Lines Against Trump March 12, 2024President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump offer vastly different policy paths on almost every aspect of the economy.