CBO’s Report on Payroll Tax Reduction
Senator Robert Casey, Jr. (D-PA) asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for its input on ways increase employment by reducing payroll taxes. Here’s part of the CBO’s response: This letter responds...
View ArticleEmployees, Independent Contractors and the Home Worker Category
Tax lawyers Robert Wood and Christopher Krachale write in Home Workers: Employee Status Hidden in Plain Sight: There are many tests for determining who is an employee and who is not. Yet much of it...
View ArticleTax Bomber Stack Wanted Independent Contractor Status to Avoid Paying Taxes
Enacted in 1978, §530 is a safe harbor law that lists several conditions which if met allows workers to be treated as independent contractors rather than employees. Joe Stack was compelled to burn his...
View ArticleHouses Passes Jobs Bill: Good Legislation or Political Ploy?
Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press reports: Despite doubts among many lawmakers that it’ll create many jobs, the House on Thursday passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a...
View ArticleThe HIRE Act and Paygo for Show
On Wednesday the Senate passed the HIRE Act on a bipartisan vote of 68 to 29. Mike Godfrey of TaxNews.com reports on the key provisions (emphasis added): The United States Senate has approved...
View ArticleTIGTA Wants IRS to Crack Down on Worker Misclassification
WebCPA reports that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says that weaknesses in the IRS’s employment tax compliance program could cost the U.S. Treasury more than$130 million in...
View ArticleBrookings Institute: State and Federal Unemployment Taxes are Regressive so...
Two weeks ago in a roundtable talk sponsored by The National Academy of Social Insurance Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institute said the unemployment payroll tax is a scandalously regressive tax on...
View Article2011 Payroll Tax Relief
One of the more talked about provisions of the tax bill signed into law yesterday by President Obama is the temporary payroll tax reduction. WebCPA reports that the IRS has already issued guidance on...
View ArticleNew 1099 Reporting Rules Given Last Rites?
Catherine Clifford of CNNMoney reports of the imminent death of the new 1099 reporting requirements included in Obamacare: On Thursday, three Senate Democrats wrote to House Speaker John Boehner urging...
View ArticleSenate Repeals Oppressive 1099 Law, Linda Beale Calls it a Conspiracy
Joe Kristan reports that the United State’s Senate voted to repeal the new 1099 law yesterday: The Senate yesterday voted to repeal the expansion of information reportingcontained in last year’s...
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