New Bill Halves Estate Tax There is some bipartisan agreement that estate tax laws should make allowances for small businesses, Jeff Bush says. 04/26/2024 - 4:50 am | View Link
I’m going to inherit $6 million in property along with my two siblings — is there a ‘clever’ way to avoid capital-gains tax? There are three siblings who are heirs, including me. What happens with the eventual distribution upon my surviving parent’s death?” ... 04/26/2024 - 12:29 am | View Link
9 ways rich real estate owners save big on taxes from putting mansions in trusts to donating rental property income These far-fetched tactics to give real estate to heirs are perfectly legal, lawyers and bankers to the wealthy tell Insider. 04/25/2024 - 5:19 am | View Link
Lawmaker Opposes Proposed New Jersey Sales Tax Increase Assembly Republican Leader John DiMaio staunchly opposes the proposal to increase the sales tax to address NJ Transit's budget deficit. Lobbyists suggested ... 04/24/2024 - 10:04 pm | View Link
India had estate tax 40 years ago. Congress, BJP have toyed with the idea since A political firestorm has erupted over Sam Pitroda's 'US-like inheritance tax' remark. However, the concept of an inheritance tax is not new to India and both the BJP and Congress have mooted the idea ... 04/24/2024 - 1:35 am | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.