Dollar steadies in calm start to US inflation

Dollar steadies in calm start to US inflation

The EURUSD currency pair remains in a tight range above the round-level support of 1.0900 on  Monday as it struggles for direction. Investors look for fresh cues at the start of a busy data week that will likely indicate how much the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September. For fresh interest rate cues, … Read more

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Job Promises: Washington lawmakers approved a tax break for data centers to create more jobs in rural Washington, but they can’t say … Read more

Power Hungry: Was one of WA’s biggest corporate tax breaks worth the cost?

Power Hungry: Was one of WA’s biggest corporate tax breaks worth the cost?

POWER HUNGRY | Second in a Seattle Times and ProPublica series about the impact of data centers in Washington. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Times Watchdog stories dig deep to hold power accountable, right wrongs and create change. This work is made possible by The … Read more

Updated FinCEN FAQs Provide Three Important Clarifications on Reporting Obligations Under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) | JD Supra

Updated FinCEN FAQs Provide Three Important Clarifications on Reporting Obligations Under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) | JD Supra

The Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA) went into effect earlier this year, although many uncertainties about the CTA’s application still remain. To help remedy those uncertainties, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has updated its FAQs several times since the CTA has gone into effect. The current FAQs provide three important clarifications that subject companies … Read more

Sluggish Eurozone PMI weighs on Euro

Sluggish Eurozone PMI weighs on Euro

The EURUSD currency pair weakened to near 1.0830 Wednesday, as the preliminary Eurozone Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) report for July showed that composite numbers unexpectedly eased due to a slowdown in activities in the manufacturing and services sectors. The HCOB Composite PMI decreased to 50.1, just above the 50 threshold that separates … Read more

Budget 2024-25: Income Tax Contributes More to Govt Revenue Than Corporations

Budget 2024-25: Income Tax Contributes More to Govt Revenue Than Corporations

New Delhi: The Budget at a glance establishes that the share of government revenue from income tax (tax on individuals) at 19% is more than what corporates have contributed (17%). Advertisement <!– This follows from taxes foregone five years ago, when corporates were given a tax break. <!– The corporate tax-rate cut was meant to be … Read more

Use taxes as way to thwart growing corporate ownership of homes

Use taxes as way to thwart growing corporate ownership of homes

Re “County to crack down on corporate homebuyers and landlords amid record prices” (July 16): For years we have seen corporations paying cash to buy more and more houses, then rent them. The article mentions the numbers are only increasing.How about this simple partial solution: The county decides upon a maximum number of homes that … Read more

Corporate Tax Breaks Contribute to Income and Racial Inequality and Shift Resources to Foreign Investors

Corporate Tax Breaks Contribute to Income and Racial Inequality and Shift Resources to Foreign Investors

This report is a modified version of an earlier report ITEP published in collaboration with Liberation in a Generation. 1. Corporate tax cuts and corporate tax avoidance worsen income inequality. When corporations are allowed to pay less in taxes, the ultimate beneficiaries are mainly the owners of corporate stocks, who are concentrated among the wealthiest … Read more

Nebraska’s 2023-24 general tax receipts come in $10.6 million below latest projections • Nebraska Examiner

Nebraska’s 2023-24 general tax receipts come in $10.6 million below latest projections • Nebraska Examiner

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s tax receipts for the 2023-24 fiscal year released Monday came in 0.1% below the most recent projections. In the past year, the State of Nebraska collected $7.156 billion for the state’s general pocketbook, about $10.6 million below a Feb. 29 forecasting projection. The reported general fund tax receipts include net sales and use … Read more

Tax Breaks: Sales Taxes Take A Holiday In Some States

Tax Breaks: Sales Taxes Take A Holiday In Some States

here. Despite the fact that the thermometer still reads summer, fall is creeping closer. According to the National Retail Federation, one in five (22%) back-to-school shoppers have already started gearing up for the 2024-25 school year (you can count me as one of them). However, with above-average prices in stores and online, those shoppers are … Read more