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Employers who put a “qualified overtime” amount in Box 14 of the 2025 Form W-2 are furnishing the separate accounting the IRS says employees may rely on to claim the new overtime deduction; taxpayers ...
For tax year 2025 the IRS treated reporting of “qualified overtime compensation” as a transition issue: employers are encouraged to provide the overtime premium to employees (for example in Box 14 of ...
Yes — beginning with the 2025 tax year, most taxpayers who do not itemize will not be able to deduct charitable gifts on Schedule A, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) creates a new above‑the‑...
Federal officials and local outlets report widely differing tallies of immigration arrests in since the Trump administration launched a high‑profile enforcement push late in 2025; official spokespeopl...
Yes: within the and its agents exercise law‑enforcement authorities—yet it is not the same as local police in mission, jurisdiction, oversight, or routine public functions, and those differences shape...
The IRS set the 2025 individual estimated tax schedule largely on the standard 15th-day pattern: payments for tax year 2025 were due April 15, June 16, September 15 and January 15, 2026 (with the June...
The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
between and National Guard is highly unlikely to produce a clear battlefield-style “victor”; instead, any clash would most likely be a political and legal standoff shaped by jurisdiction, rules of eng...
A flurry of recent local and partisan reporting ties large outbound cash movements at several airports to couriers of Somali descent, but there is no direct, corroborated mainstream account in the pro...
For 2026 ACA eligibility and employer affordability calculations, sources show (a) premium tax credit/subsidy eligibility will again be tied to the federal poverty level (FPL) bands (generally 100%–40...
breaking out in in the immediate term remains unlikely, but current events have raised credible warnings that federal–state confrontation, violent clashes, and localized instability could escalate if ...
The IRS updated static mortality tables used for defined‑benefit pension funding for valuation dates in 2026 via Notice 2025‑40, but the life‑expectancy/divisor tables used to compute individual IRA a...
For 2026 Social Security payments, recipients may still owe federal income tax on a portion of their benefits depending on “combined income”: up to 85% of benefits can be taxed under current federal r...
California does not tax winnings from the California State Lottery, so state tax on in-state lottery prizes is zero; winners still must report the prize as federal taxable income and face IRS withhold...
There is no single, authoritative federal “social security stimulus check” confirmed for December 2025 in the available reporting; however, beneficiaries of Social Security programs will see routine a...
The federal individual income tax system for 2025 uses seven marginal rates: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%; inflation adjustments shifted most bracket thresholds roughly 2.8% from 2024 and the ...
Gifts and inheritances of physical gold and silver change a recipient’s tax basis differently: gifts generally carry over the donor’s adjusted basis (a “carryover” basis), while inheritances receive a...
Multiple reputable sources converge on a clear but not perfectly precise picture: the best-supported, recent estimate is about 1.7 million , while other analyses and media accounts place the figure as...
Public disclosures and reporting have revealed fragments — not the complete set — of ’s tax information: two leaked pages from a , six years (2015–2020) of returns released by the , and investigative ...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that agents have been shot or seriously injured in the recent wave of confrontations in ; instead the documentation shows multiple fatal shootings of civi...