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Talking Taxes In a Truck Episode 5 – David Winston on Where the Coronavirus is Taking Us

David Winston, President of the Winston Group, a super smart strategic policy and research firm based in Washington DC, says there are three phases to the COVID-19 response. Which one are we in now? Find out by listening to our latest “Talking Taxes in a Truck” podcast. We cover the effects of the coronavirus shutdown on businesses and consumers and where things are headed. Will it be new normal or business as usual? Recorded on May 28, 2020 — 22 minutes.

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admin2021-01-27T13:58:30+00:00May 29, 2020|

More Business Community Support for COVID-19 Reforms

The Main Street Employers coalition today endorsed legislation scheduled to voted on in the House of Representatives tomorrow. The bill, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, was introduced by Representatives Dean Phillips (D-MN) and Chip Roy (R-TX) and would help restore confidence and energy to a program badly in need of both – the Paycheck Protection Program. As the letter states:

Congress launched the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help employers keep their workers on payroll and, once it was safe to do so, enable them to quickly return to work. The PPP is arguably the most successful …

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admin2020-05-27T19:43:00+00:00May 27, 2020|

Business Community Rallies Around Paycheck Protection Program

One hundred and twenty-seven national trade groups sent a letter today to Congressional and Administrative leaders asking them to quickly enact three key improvements to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP):

Eliminate the unnecessary 75/25 rule;
Extend the eight-week period for purposes of calculating loan forgiveness; and
Extend the June 30 safe harbor date for rehiring and restoration of pay.

The S Corporation Association eagerly signed this letter. The PPP is the single-most effective program Congress has devised to help businesses through the crisis, but it is badly in need of a tune-up. Recent SBA numbers indicate demand for the …

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admin2020-05-21T17:31:40+00:00May 21, 2020|

HEROES Act Kicks Businesses When They Are Down

House leadership released their HEROES Act yesterday with a plan to vote on it Friday. The bill includes an eye-popping $3 trillion in assistance to families, businesses, non-profits, and governments.

One item that stands alone in this tidal wave of spending is the repeal of the NOL and loss limitation relief enacted as part of the CARES Act. Where almost all the other HEROES Act provisions reduce costs on businesses, this one would hike their taxes.

Let’s be clear — the CARES Act NOL provisions are largely timing benefits – whatever tax benefit businesses receive now will have to be repaid …

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admin2020-05-13T21:25:04+00:00May 13, 2020|

More on NOL and Loss Limitation Relief

Allowing businesses to use losses to offset income earned in prior years is a longstanding anti-recession policy with solid bipartisan support. It was adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, after Hurricane Katrina, and again following the financial crisis. It is simply a way to give businesses suffering losses the ability to recognize those losses more quickly.

Yet now some are charging that the bipartisan loss limitation relief included in the CAREs Act is a “massive” tax break for “hedge funds” and real estate moguls that was “snuck” into the bill at the last moment. None of this is true.

In fact, …

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admin2020-04-29T16:27:19+00:00April 24, 2020|