You’re reading the Prompt 2024 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Vice President Kamala Harris is out with her economic plan “to bring down costs for American families.” There’s already a lot of buzz about her proposals to go after corporate “price gouging,” cut taxes for families with kids and offer $25,000 … Read more
The Federal Reserve must go big with a supersized 50 basis point interest rate cut in September to get ahead of a looming economic storm, warns the CEO of a leading independent financial advisory and fintech. The warning from deVere Group’s Nigel Green comes as consumer prices in the US inched up modestly last month, adding fuel … Read more
ByHT News Desk Aug 04, 2024 07:56 PM IST Share Via Copy Link Corporate taxes formed a large bulk of the defaults, adding up to ₹3.97 lakh crore and capital gains tax and transfer pricing defaults was ₹4.81 lakh crore. Tax defaults in India have skyrocketed by 1000% in the last ten years and litigation … Read more
JetBlue Airways is suing the state of Florida for overcharging the airline by more than $631,630 in corporate income tax, according to its complaint that was filed in Leon County.The complaint, filed July 19 in Leon Circuit Civil court, says the airline contested the “entire amount of the additional corporate income tax for the years … Read more
By Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion (TNS) [Editor’s note: This opinion piece was published before President Joe Biden announced he would be dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.] Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the biggest corporate tax cut in U.S. history. How did it affect the economy? The question has taken … Read more
Lavly Perling, chair of the nonparliamentary Parempoolsed, is critical of the messages conveyed in the new coalition agreement and says that the corporate income tax being introduced will not be good for the economy. “Parempoolsed tend to be critical regarding this, in terms of both content and their messages, which certainly don’t provide predictability to … Read more
There is a lot to digest from the shocking assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend, with US politics, which was already very divided, now marred with violence, said Rabobank’s senior FX strategist Jane Foley. “Market pricing can only respond in a binary manner and, for the markets, the complexities of the … Read more
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices are building on the overnight recovery from the $80.00 level, or a two-week low and gaining follow-through positive traction during Asian trading on Thursday. The uptick is supported by a combination of factors and lifts the commodity to a multi-day peak, around $82.00 in the last hour. The … Read more
Background The proposed regulations on the procedural aspect of the excise tax was published on April 12, 2024. These were part of the broader implementation of section 4501, which generally imposes a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by publicly traded corporations. Notice 2023-2 also provided initial guidance on this tax, giving taxpayers a preliminary … Read more
Tyson chicken barns in West Tennessee on April 21, 2021. (Photo: John Partipilo) They’re scattered across the rural Tennessee landscape: blue-sided barns stretching the length of five U.S. football fields, clustered together in groups numbering as few as three to as many as 20. Each of Tennessee’s nearly 2,200 industrial chicken barns produce about 200,000 … Read more