Cryptocurrency has become a burning topic all around the globe. Nations are either creating regulations around it or banning it. In the same perusal, Member of parliament, Priyanka Chaturvedi question...
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Defense Stocks Take a Hit on U.S. Defense Spending Request
Text size Defense stocks trade for about 18 times estimated 2022 earnings. Jose Luis Magana / AFP) Defense stocks are taking a small hit after details of the coming defense budget were released. On Mo...
Worried About Getting Audited? Here Are Red Flags for the IRS.
Even though the Internal Revenue Service is auditing fewer taxpayers these days, you still don’t want to put a target on your back. Among those more likely to get audited: Small-business owners with l...
Opinion: Preparing for the great sunset: What you need to know if tax code provisions expire
The hot equities and housing markets have contributed to a surge in U.S. household wealth during the pandemic. According to the Federal Reserve, household wealth grew by $19 trillion to $137 trillion ...
Weekend reads: There’s a recession warning as the Federal Reserve fights inflation
The Federal Reserve this week increased the federal funds rate for the first time since 2018. Long-term market interest rates had risen significantly as investors anticipated that the central bank wou...
South Korea to put crypto taxation move on hold
TL;DR Breakdown: South Korea’s president elect proposing to extend cryptocurrency tax law by another year The move is in keeping with his earlier campaign promises Crypto market participants are expec...
Cynthia Lummis and the change in crypto taxation
A new bill from Senator Cynthia Lummis, dubbed by many as the cryptocurrency queen due to her familiarity with the industry and having personally invested around $200,000 in Bitcoin, is attempting to ...
NFT Taxation Comes to Singapore
As reported by The Business Times, Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced on March 11 that NFT owners in Singapore will start paying taxes on their investments. Income tax treatment will b...
Hey, Gig Worker! Prepare for a Lot More Work When You File Your Taxes.
Self-employed workers who quit salaried jobs last year in the “Great Resignation”—the biggest corporate exodus on record—may find themselves reminiscing about the good old days on a payroll as they pr...
Opinion: The Fed needs to target a floor for the 10-year Treasury, in addition to radically raising the fed funds rate
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell faces the toughest task since Chairman Paul Volcker tamed the Great Inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. And a lot of the pressures driving the most virulent ...
Estate and Gift Taxes 2021-2022: What’s New This Year and What You Need to Know
The federal estate- and gift-tax exemption applies to the total of an individual’s taxable gifts made during life and assets left at death. Above the exemption, the top rate on such transfers is 40%. ...
Standard Deduction 2021-2022: How Much Is It?
The standard deduction is the amount taxpayers can subtract from income if they don’t break out deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, state and local taxes and other items separa...
2021-2022 Federal Income Tax Brackets and Rates
The top tax rate is 37%. For 2026, the top rate is set to return to 39.6%. Photo: Illustration: Tammy Lian The tax code currently has seven income-tax brackets for individuals that range from 10% to 3...
Thailand Loosens Cryptocurrency Taxation Rules
Arman Shirinyan One of the largest economies in Asia imposes new, more liberal cryptocurrency taxation rules Thailand’s cabinet has decided to ease up on cryptocurrency taxation laws in order to...
Mortgage Interest Deduction: How It Works in 2022
The number of taxpayers claiming mortgage interest deductions on Schedule A has dropped sharply since the 2017 tax overhaul enacted both direct and indirect curbs on them. For 2019, about 13 million f...
Why Moving to a State with Low Income Taxes Could Cost You
That’s what financial professionals are telling clients who are fed up with high income tax rates in their home state and weighing an out-of-state move. They’re counseling clients to take an in-depth ...
Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts
Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...
What Advisors Need to Know About Crypto Taxation
Notably, these numbers are averages of estimates, and as the authors of the Vanguard study point out, there could be great variability in outcomes from one client to the next, and even one year to the...
Many Americans Will Be Getting Smaller Tax Refunds This Year. Here’s Why.
The flood of federal pandemic-relief money was welcome last year, but it is causing disappointment and confusion as taxpayers prepare their 2021 returns. Many will be getting smaller-than-expected ref...
The WSJ Tax Guide 2022: What to Know Now About Tax Filing and Refunds
Feb. 18, 2022 5:30 am ET Get ready for a wild tax season. Every year more than 200 million Americans sign and send income-tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. But the 2022 filing season will b...
Indian Crypto Taxation Leads to Increase in Daily Sign-ups for Exchange Platforms
Indian crypto-asset exchange platform WazirX witnessed a 30% jump in its daily sign-ups since the country decided to impose a 30% tax on profits from cryptocurrency trading, according to co-founder Ni...
Indian Crypto Taxation Leads to Daily Sign-ups Increase for Exchange Platforms
Indian crypto-asset exchange platform WazirX witnessed a 30% jump in its daily sign-ups since the country decided to impose a 30% tax on profits from cryptocurrency trading, according to co-founder Ni...
‘We live 5 minutes from our in-laws who have a larger home’: Is it a good idea to swap houses? Will I end up with a surprise tax bill?
I am a California resident. My husband and I own a 1,800-square-foot home that we bought in 2019 for $1.5 million. We have between 40% and 50% equity in the property due to a large down payment. We li...
Electric Vehicles Will Need New Taxation Or Governments Will Lose Billions
Governments all over the world rely on the income from vehicle tax and a percentage from the fuel vehicles use. But with EVs, that fuel revenue is gone. This is causing great concern everywhere that E...
The Tax Advantages of Series I Savings Bonds
At first glance, a stodgy, government-guaranteed investment may not seem like the most thrilling investment idea. But for many investors that’s exactly what U.S. Treasury Series “I” savings bonds are ...
Indian FM says Crypto Taxation is “Sovereign Right”
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman came out guns blazing to clarify that cryptocurrency taxation is a “sovereign right” and “corrective action”. Sitharaman clear...
How A Taxpayer’s Complaint With The Department Of Justice Could Change Crypto
Last Thursday, the public learned that Joshua and Jessica Jarrett, on behalf of the Attorney General of the United States, had been offered a full refund of $3,793, plus statutory interest, for the 20...
Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...
HMRC updates its cryptoassets manual to address DeFi taxation in the UK
The UK’s HMRC has updated its cryptoassets manual that it published last year, to provide legislative clarification on how DeFi will be taxed in the UK. The cryptoassets manual is a formalisation of ...
Biden’s Wealth Tax Proposal Would Target More Than Billionaires
Text size President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal includes a wealth tax it says would target the top 0.01% of households. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images About the author: Thomas Hoenig is a dist...