Tax Strategies

The Arizona Democrat, a pivotal vote in the Senate, is asking to drop a provision from the bill that would scale back a tax break for fund managers, known as carried interest.

The bill would impose a 15% minimum tax on large corporations, beef up tax audits and force drug companies to offer Medicare lower prices.

The Treasury Secretary waded into the congressional debate over proposed economic and climate legislation.

The Joint Committee on Taxation found that some middle- and low-income households could pay $16.7 billion in additional taxes next year as a result of the draft bill.

An obscure retirement and estate planning technique holds added benefits amid tighter rules on inherited IRAs.

The Byrd rule allows individual pieces of a measure to be challenged on the grounds that they are incidental or extraneous to the budget.

Sinema has expressed opposition to ending the carried-interest tax break used by private equity and hedge fund managers to lower their tax bills.

The legislation would reinstate and increase a long-lapsed tax on crude and imported petroleum products to 16.4 cents per gallon.

Democrats are seeking to pass the bill this week in the Senate and in the House next week.

Earnings in these accounts aren’t taxed unless a distribution exceeds a designated beneficiary’s qualified disability expenses.