Representatives for Circle and Coinbase blamed traditional financial institutions — ‘TradFi’ — for instability in the digital asset sector. “What happened over the last several days...
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Goldman Analysts Forecast No Fed Rate Hike In March
Topline Analysts at Goldman Sachs on Sunday said it “no longer expects” the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates later this month, after federal regulators moved to swiftly shield the U.S. banking s...
State regulator takes control of Signature Bank, federal regulators guarantee deposits
Policy • March 12, 2023, 7:29PM EDT The New York Department of Financial Services seized crypto-friendly Signature Bank in order “to protect depositors,” the state banking regulator said i...
Why The Feds Should Tread Lightly On Hydrogen Regulation
A view shows one of the worlds’s first plants for the production of green hydrogen on the site of … [+] the “Shell Energy an Chemicals Park Rheinland” of Anglo-Dutch oil giant ...
U.S. Treasury convening regular Biden administration discussions on CBDC
Policy • March 1, 2023, 2:38PM EST The U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve and White House officials “will begin to meet regularly” to talk about a possible central bank digital currency, said Nellie Liang...
SEC action against Paxos paints regulatory target on stablecoins
Stablecoins look to be the next part of the crypto ecosystem facing a regulatory crackdown. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued notice to crypto infrastructure provider Paxos...
Cryptocurrency investor losses are being turned into IRS gains — here’s how they’re doing it
The Internal Revenue Service has been turning up its scrutiny on cryptocurrency investors in recent years, and as that happens, more investors have been turning to the tax code’s rules on investment l...
FTX’s collapse is ‘a Lehman moment’ for crypto: Yellen
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called FTX’s collapse “a Lehman moment” for the digital asset industry. “It’s a Lehman moment within crypto, and crypto is big enough that you’ve had substantial ...
U.S. Treasury says currency-market intervention should be reserved for ‘very exceptional circumstances’ in response to Japan’s September move
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday said it expects currency-market interventions, like Japan’s in September, should be reserved for exceptional circumstances, as it kept Tokyo on a list of partn...
White House is monitoring FTX implosion, calls for more crypto regulation
The Biden administration has renewed its call for more rules around cryptocurrencies in the U.S. “The administration has consistently maintained that without proper oversight cryptocurrencies ri...
IRS releases new federal tax brackets and standard deductions. Here’s how they affect your family’s tax bill.
America’s high inflation rate will produce a 7% increase in the size of the standard deduction when workers file their taxes on their 2023 income, according to new inflation adjustments from the Inter...
Do you have problems with the IRS — or does the IRS have a problem with you? Read this before you act.
How do you deal with a problem like the Internal Revenue Service? And how do you deal with your own tax problems as they pertain to the IRS? To be clear, I’m not talking about major problems like righ...
IRS sets new 401(k) limits — investors can save a lot more money in 2023
People can contribute up to $22,500 in 401(k) accounts and $6,500 in IRAs in 2023, the IRS said Friday. For 401(k)s, that’s an almost 10% increase from 2022’s contribution limit of $20,500. For IRAs, ...
That Sky-High I Bond Interest Rate Will Be Coming Down to Earth
Inflation-adjusted Series I savings bonds have been the most enticing place to park your cash this year—nearly 10% interest, backed by the U.S. government, the safest investment around. In a few weeks...
Citigroup Joins Industry Effort to Lend to People Without Credit Scores
Citigroup is joining a government-sponsored effort to expand access to credit in underserved communities. The bank is launching two pilot programs early next year under the Office of the Comptroller o...
Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets
The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its w...
What $80 Billion More for the IRS Means for Your Taxes
The last Tax Report came out just as Congress took up the Inflation Reduction Act, and it discussed the bill’s $80 billion in proposed new Internal Revenue Service funding. Over half the new dollars w...
Yellen tells IRS to develop modernization plan in 6 months
Now that President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ expansive climate, tax and health care bill into law, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed the IRS to develop a plan within six months outli...
More IRS Audits Are on the Way for Taxpayers. How to Respond if You’re Targeted.
Taxpayers, be forewarned. A new era of IRS scrutiny is looming. The Internal Revenue Service is due to receive an infusion of $80 billion over 10 years under the Inflation Reduction Act—the tax, clima...
Inflation Reduction Act would send $80 billion to the IRS. Tax experts say it may not be enough to help the backlogged agency.
For roughly a year, Jonathan Baer watched a paper folder full of tax-related paperwork slowly grow as he chronicled his effort to claim his 2020 tax refund. The attempts included upwards of 40 phone c...
House Committee Can Get Trump’s Tax Returns, Appeals Court Rules
Topline Donald Trump’s tax returns must be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, the latest ruling in the ex-president’s ongoing effort to shield hi...
Treasury Sanctions Ethereum-Based Tornado Cash For Allegedly Helping To Launder More Than $7 Billion
Topline The Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned a cryptocurrency firm with ties to a North Korea state-sponsored hacking group for allegedly facilitating malicious laundering—marking the latest r...
Got Hidden Income? The IRS May Get More Money to Find You
If Congress passes the Inflation Reduction Act, Americans should expect more IRS audits—especially on filers making more than $400,000 a year. The surprise agreement between Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N...
IRS Changes Guidelines for Inherited IRAs, Causing Confusion and Pushback
Figuring out the most efficient way to navigate the tax impact of inheriting individual retirement accounts has become more complicated since the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed new rules in ...
Crypto exchange Kraken under investigation for violating US sanctions: NYT
The US Treasury Department has been investigating Kraken since 2019 and is expected to impose a fine on the cryptocurrency exchange, according to a New York Times report. The firm may have violated US...
U.S. Treasury sweetens the pot on I-bonds by adding a fixed rate
After record-breaking sales of I-bonds in October, the U.S. Treasury is dangling another good deal in front of savers for the next six months. Starting Nov. 2, when I-bonds will be available again af...