Tax

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By Laura Davison
May 1, 2020 11:25 AM

Small businesses that manage to get their Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven may find themselves losing valuable tax breaks, according to new guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.

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Lee Frederiksen
May 1, 2020 10:00 AM

As if tax season isn’t already stressful enough, the coronavirus pandemic is making things that much harder.

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By Noah Buhayar
April 30, 2020 10:51 AM

Just before the coronavirus roiled the economy, wealthy investors piled into funds that take advantage of a popular, two-year-old tax break meant to help poor communities.

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Yvette Shields
April 29, 2020 4:18 PM

Fiscal blow to MPEA's operations and tax collections follow the halt to trade and convention business that began in March.

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A medical worker wearing protective gear walks by a Fire Department of New York (FDNY) ambulance outside the emergency room at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 2, 2020. In four months, the new coronavirus infected more than 1 million people and killed more than 51,000. The U.S. accounts for a quarter of the cases. Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg
Jeff Stimpson
April 29, 2020 1:36 PM

Starting in May, preparation will be free for police, firefighters, EMTs and health care workers.

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By Laura Davison
April 29, 2020 11:47 AM

The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to instruct people whose deceased relatives received coronavirus stimulus payments to return the money to the federal government, according to a department spokesman.

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By Brandon Kochkodin
April 28, 2020 11:45 AM

With states and cities facing the worst fiscal crisis in decades, a little-noticed provision in New York’s tax law could put amicable relations with neighboring states to the test.

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Michael Cohn
April 27, 2020 10:40 AM

The Internal Revenue Service is urging some benefits recipients to register their children and other dependents for the extra $500 per child stimulus payments by May 5 if they haven’t already filed a tax return for 2018 or 2019.

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Edward Mendlowitz
April 27, 2020 9:30 AM

We just got through a most unusual “tax season,” with taxes pushed aside at the beginning of April to be consumed with the SBA and PPP.

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Michael Cohn
April 23, 2020 12:08 PM

The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing the biggest drop in Americans’ financial situation in over a decade.

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