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Committee Reviews CTA’s Future
Earlier today a House Financial Services subcommittee held a hearing entitled, “Following the Money: Tools and Techniques to Combat Fraud.” The hearing covered many topics, but the conversation returned time and again to the awful Corporate Transparency Act.
The hearing kicked off with Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) – who leads the charge to repeal the statute – making the case for the Treasury Department’s recent …
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The Economic Risk of Cliff Diving
A key paragraph from today’s Politico Tax highlights a critical issue for Main Street businesses:
A good number of economists already say that extending the expiring TCJA individual provisions wouldn’t do much to further spur the economy. That’s part of the reason that Trump and his team are plugging some of his more targeted tax cut ideas, while other key Republicans are talking up key tax breaks for businesses, like full expensing for capital investments.
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Main Street Cheers CTA Relief
Treasury last week made good on its promise to deliver much-needed relief from the Corporate Transparency Act, a move that did not go unnoticed by the Main Street business community. In a letter sent earlier today, over 100 trade associations applauded a new interim rule that exempts American companies from the CTA’s onerous reporting requirements and implements a risk-based enforcement approach instead. The letter reads:
This rule appropriately narrows the scope of entities …
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FinCEN Releases CTA Relief Rule
More good news on the battle over privacy. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Friday released the following statement:
[T]he Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act.
In that interim final rule, FinCEN revises the definition of “reporting company” in its implementing regulations to mean only those entities that …
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Congressman Yakym Hosts 199A Roundtable
Members of the Main Street Employers Coalition convened in South Bend, Indiana, today for a roundtable discussion with Congressman Rudy Yakym, who represents the state’s Second District and sits on the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee. The sole focus of the event was the Section 199A deduction, a provision that is central to tens of millions of Main Street businesses organized as pass-throughs.
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Privacy Fight in Australia, Courts Continues
The actions by the new Administration last week to curtail reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act were a huge victory for millions of Main Street businesses, but they were by no means the final word on the subject. To ultimately kill this ill-conceived statute, we need help from Congress or the Courts. On that front, here’s three key events in the last two weeks worth highlighting.
First, any legislative effort to repeal the CTA will …
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Main Street 199A Resources
Latest update on all the studies, data, and other information S-Corp has compiled in support of the 199A deduction – including the new CRS METR estimates we posted on Monday. The materials below span more than a decade of work and highlight the central role the pass-through sector plays in the American economy, and the importance of the Section 199A deduction to these businesses.
Rate Analysis Tells the Full Story
The Congressional Research Service is out …
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CRS on Marginal Rates
As Congress puts together the big tax bill, CRS just produced another reminder of why making the Section 199A pass-through deduction permanent needs to be part of the package. This chart says it all:
The rates reflected here are important because they measure the overall tax burden imposed on new investment. As CRS notes: “The marginal effective tax rate (METR) is a forward-looking measure that estimates… …
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