Corporate Tax Increases: How Business Owners Can Respond

Corporate Tax Increases: How Business Owners Can Respond

This is a guest column from Matt Silasiri, the Marketing & Business Development Manager at Sunbelt Business Advisors.President Biden bowed out of the 2024 Presidential race. But the clock is still ticking on the Trump-era tax cuts. And President Biden’s proposed budget, including substantial tax increases, is still in play.Business owners who are considering a business exit in the … Read more

Can you pay your taxes with a credit card?

Can you pay your taxes with a credit card?

Personal Finance Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Credit Cards Can you pay your taxes with a credit card? Written by Katherine Fan 2024-07-18T17:56:54Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the … Read more

Will Labour win lift UK stocks?

Will Labour win lift UK stocks?

UK equities’ support following a Labour victory driven by a temporary boost from easing political uncertainty will be limited as the expectation has already been widely priced-in by the markets. Also, for the UK’s stocks to secure robust growth and regain ground against their global peers, three critical factors must align, said the CEO of … Read more

Korea to cut ‘value-up’ taxes, double foreign professionals by 2035 to revamp growth

Korea to cut 'value-up' taxes, double foreign professionals by 2035 to revamp growth

President Yoon Suk Yeol announces the Dynamic Economy Roadmap and the Economic Policy Direction for the latter half of the year at the Blue House in central Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]   The government plans to reduce corporate and inheritance taxes for companies in the “value-up program” and more than double the number of foreign … Read more

Are real property taxes set to increase?

Are real property taxes set to increase?

Republic Act No. 12001 has been signed into law by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. This new law is called the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RPVARA). Simply put, the RPVARA seeks to provide a uniform valuation for real properties in the country. It also creates the Real Property Information System, which shall maintain … Read more

US inflation, Fed decisions to dominate markets

US inflation, Fed decisions to dominate markets

The US Dollar is holding steady early Wednesday, as investors gear up for key macroeconomic events that could significantly impact the currency’s valuation. The Bureau of Labor Statistic will release the Consumer Price Index data for May in early U.S. trading. Later in the day, the Federal Reserve will announce monetary policy decisions and publish … Read more

High corporate tax rates – a barrier to MNCs | The Express Tribune

High corporate tax rates – a barrier to MNCs | The Express Tribune

KARACHI: Approximately 210 multinational companies (MNCs) in Pakistan operating in sectors like tobacco, oil, auto, pharmaceuticals, banking and others contribute a third of the total tax collection and make a major contribution to the national exchequer. They also reinvest in their respective units or inject capital into some new ones. Moreover, they make investments of … Read more

Supreme Court Holds That A Corporation’s Life Insurance Proceeds Used To Redeem A Decedent’s Shares Must Be Included In Federal Estate Tax Calculation

Supreme Court Holds That A Corporation’s Life Insurance Proceeds Used To Redeem A Decedent’s Shares Must Be Included In Federal Estate Tax Calculation

June 6, 2024 Click for PDF Connelly v. United States, No. 23-146 – Decided June 6, 2024 Today, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the proceeds from a life insurance policy taken out by a corporation to redeem a decedent shareholder’s stock are a corporate asset for federal estate tax purposes. “An obligation to redeem shares … Read more

Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450 million round, source says

Nvidia and Salesforce double down on AI startup Cohere in $450 million round, source says

Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia (NVDA.O) and Salesforce Ventures (CRM.N), as well as new investors including Cisco (CSCO.O) and Canadian pension fund PSP Investments, according to a source familiar the matter.This concludes the first tranche of Cohere’s monthslong fundraising efforts, while the company is … Read more

Aristotle in the age of AI: When data breeds inequality

Aristotle in the age of AI: When data breeds inequality

Fact: Aristotle observed “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal things.”