Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Move To Derail House Version Of TRIA Creates Uncertainty
By Arthur D. PostalDemand by conservatives to add tort reform provisions could kill the billWashingtonThe likelihood that some of the more innovative and controversial provisions of the ...
September 07, 2005
Estate Ta Future Is MurkyThe future of estate taxes remains unclear. It seems as if this has been the case since Congress implemented the Economic Growth and Tax ...
August 31, 2005
LegislationrounduppostalLegislationrounduppostalLines:Banner--LegislationIn terms of its aftermath, Hurricane Katrina's range of destruction certainly includes Washington, D.C.'s political agenda. And for the nation's life insurance industry that ...
August 17, 2005
Storm Scrambles Congressional CalendarA vote on repeal of the estate tax was scheduled to be among the first actions taken by the Senate last week when it ...
August 15, 2005
Industry Hails Passage Of Class Action BillWashingtonLegislation to reform the nations class action tort system was signed into law by President Bush Feb. 18, just one day after it was passed ...
July 29, 2005
Frist Delays Estate Ta VoteThe Senate will take up the estate tax issue when it returns from its August recess.[@@]Sen. Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, announced plans ...
July 28, 2005
Frist Delays Estate Ta VoteThe Senate will take up the estate tax issue when it returns from its August recess.[@@]Sen. Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, announced plans ...
July 27, 2005
AMT in the SpotlightMembers of President George Bush's tax reform panel voted unanimously to recommend abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) during a meeting on July 20. But Senator Connie Mack, the panel's chairman, questioned how to make up for the $1.2 trillion revenue shortfall that would be caused by an AMT repeal.