Modernizing retirement plans and savings

The congressional tax committees have a website for people to submit tax reform ideas and comments - https://taxreform.gov/ . Here is one I ...

Connecticut helps taxpayers see effect of tax law changes

Connecticut has an interesting and fairly comprehensive revenue estimator tool to help anyone see the effect of possible tax law changes. I ...

Governor Brown's Tax Modernization Proposal - Is It Enough?

Governor Brown's "May Revision" budget includes a "job creation and economic development proposal." Here is the text...

Some tax complexities for summer fun

Our federal tax law just seems to get more and more complex.  The current controversy about the 501(c)(4) reviews is an example (and per TI...

More on Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 743)

On May 6, 2013, the Senate passed S. 743, the Marketplace Fairness Act, allowing states to collect sales tax from some remote sellers (see ...

6 Year Anniversary of Blogging!

I started the 21st Century Taxation blog on May 14, 2007.  I'll keep blogging because it's fun and, well, our tax system has still n...

Nexus Oddities of the Marketplace Fairness Proposal

On May 6, 2013, the Senate passed S. 743 , the Marketplace Fairness Act (69-27). That is the farthest this bill has gotten in the past almos...

Test your knowledge of corporate tax data

Part of any tax reform effort should be to understand the current system - the rules, who pays, how much, distribution of the tax burden, co...