Christine Walizer, Author at The S Corporation Association

Rate Debate is All But Over

Another interesting week in our nation’s capital. The big news is the tax deal struck between Congressional Republicans and the White House. We expect this deal to pass, with few changes, either next week or when Congress returns the first couple weeks in January. Here are some useful summaries and the legislative text if you’re interested:

The Senate is going to take the package up on Monday and should pass it Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. It then goes to the House, where it faces an angry liberal caucus and …

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admin2019-02-04T15:47:03+00:00December 10, 2010|

Latest on Rate Debate

Congress and the Administration continue to move through the three-step dance necessary to come to closure on the debate over extending expiring tax provisions.

Step 1 took place two weeks ago when the Democratic and Republican leadership met with President Obama. The meeting didn’t result in any agreements, but it did move the ball forward when both sides agreed to appoint six negotiators to begin talks — Treasury Secretary Geithner, OMB Director Lew, House members Van Hollen (D-MD) and Camp (R-MI), and Senators Baucus (D-MT) and Kyl (R-AZ).

Those negotiators have been meeting regularly and any agreement they reach would act as …

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admin2019-02-04T15:47:03+00:00December 6, 2010|

Rate Debate Continues

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Here’s a quick update on the tax outlook.

Congress returned last week, but didn’t make much progress. The big news was the cancellation of the bipartisan leadership meeting at the White House on the 18^th; that meeting is now scheduled for November 30^th. Politico has a really good write-up on what happened, but what was the impact on the tax debate?

In our view, mostly timing. Nobody expected the get-together to result in a deal, but we did expect it to jump start discussions, with the possibility of some sort of agreement worked out by the time …

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admin2019-02-04T15:47:03+00:00November 22, 2010|

Lame Duck and Tax Policies

Congress is set to return for its lame duck session the week after next. With Thanksgiving in the middle and Christmas at the end, Congress has maybe three weeks to fund the government and figure out what to do with tax policy.

Before the election, we believed two outcomes were possible on extending the tax rates: either Congress adopts a one-year extension of everything (with some middle ground for the estate tax), or Congress does nothing and the new Republican House takes the issue up first thing in January.

The President’s original preference of extending only the middle-class tax relief does not …

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admin2019-02-04T15:47:03+00:00November 3, 2010|

The S-CORP Crystal Ball — Tax Writing-Committees in 2011

The Intrade Prediction Markets show Republicans have a 94 percent chance of taking the House today, but only a 42 percent chance of controlling the Senate. If Intrade is correct, what does that mean for the tax-writing committees?

House Ways and Means

Big changes in store here.Democrats maintain a 63 percent majority of the Committee (slightly better than their 59 percent majority in the House) -or 26 Democrats and 15 Republicans. If the House flips, we expect the committee ratios to flip as well, give or take a seat – that means about 25 Republicans and 15 Democrats.

For Democrats, …

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admin2019-02-04T15:47:03+00:00November 2, 2010|