Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Frist Delays Estate Ta Vote
By Matt BradyThe Senate will take up the estate tax issue when it returns from its August recess.[@@]Sen. Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, announced plans ...
June 23, 2005
Deadline Extended for Tax Reform Panel; New GOP Social Security InitiativePresidential panel now has until September 30 for report; proposal would fund personal accounts
June 17, 2005
White House Postpones Ta ReformPresident Bush says he will wait at least 2 months to start revising the tax code.[@@]The president has talked about making the tax code ...
June 14, 2005
Closer To Breaking The Deadlock?Senators of both parties are talking, but it may be mainly talkWashingtonEfforts are under way in the Senate to break the deadlock over repeal ...
June 05, 2005
On EmbarrassmentIt seems like Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist finally is going to achieve his long articulated but equally long unrealized ambition to bring legislation to ...
May 12, 2005
Study: Pension Reform Proposal Harder On Stronger PlansA Bush administration proposal for shoring up the U.S. defined benefit pension system could end up punishing well-run plans.[@@]Researchers at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Washington, ...
April 13, 2005
House Approves Estate Tax Repeal (Updated)Members of the U.S. House voted 272-162 Wednesday, largely along party lines, to make repeal of the federal estate tax permanent.[@@]All of the 230 ...
April 06, 2005
House Kills Estate TaxVote seen as largely symbolic since Senate remains iffyBy Arthur D. PostalWashingtonIn a move seen as "largely symbolic," the House last week voted largely along ...