Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Senate Finance’s Baucus: U.S. Headed Toward Fiscal Crisis Like Europe
By Melanie WaddellSen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Monday that any tax reform plan must be developed with a sound budget in mind that reduces deficits and debt.
May 30, 2012
Eurozone Faces 'Financial Disintegration' Unless It Acts Again, Warns Commission (The Guardian)The commissions recommendations, which will be put to a summit of EU leaders in Brussels at the end of June, outline a giant leap in fiscal and economic union that could require a new charter.
May 22, 2012
The Greek Run (The Economist)As Greece's exit from the euro zone looks more inevitable, runs on banks are more likely, too.
April 26, 2012
Health Care Reform Isn’t Entitlement Reform (Reason.com)Medicare, the nation's biggest health entitlement could be insolvent as soon as 2016, according to the program's trustees.
April 26, 2012
Health Care Reform Isn’t Entitlement Reform (Reason.com)Medicare, the nation's biggest health entitlement could be insolvent as soon as 2016, according to the program's trustees.
April 24, 2012
U.S. in ‘Self-Sustaining Recovery,’ but Tax Uncertainty Will Linger: ValliereGreg Valliere, chief strategist at Potomac Research Group, says the U.S. is experiencing a self-sustaining recovery, mediocre at best.
April 13, 2012
President Paid 20% in Taxes, Calls for Higher Rates on RichIn what is sure to fuel conservative critics, the White House announced Friday that Barack and Michelle Obama paid an effective federal tax rate of 20.5% on income in 2011.