Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Eurozone Faces 'Financial Disintegration' Unless It Acts Again, Warns Commission (The Guardian)
By Staff WriterThe 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.
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.
April 11, 2012
Ryan Warns of Obama Tax-and-Spend ‘Path to Debt and Decline’House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan slammed President Obamas policy at a Tax Policies for 4% Growth conference sponsored by the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
April 03, 2012
Pomeroy Warns of Tax Reform Threats at IRI Marketing SummitCongressional efforts to reducing or eliminating long-standing tax benefits extended to holders of life insurance, annuities and individual retirement accounts would devastate the nation's retirement preparedness, warns a former Congressman.
March 30, 2012
Why Washington Remains Graveyard of Bipartisan Dreams: News AnalysisDespite the pious talk of deficit-cutting centrists about the need to stop kicking the can down the road, a grand compromise will likely elude us until a leader emerges, Democrat or Republican, who can win over a large majority of the public to his vision of our society.