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The 2025 tax legislation called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) did not repeal the statutory rules that determine when Social Security benefits are included in taxable income; instead it create...
Major corporations have had mixed responses to calls to cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): a small number publicly ended contracts or services — most notably some consulting...
Enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) in effect through 2025 cap a household’s required contribution to the benchmark (second‑lowest‑cost Silver) plan at no more than about 8.5% of their ACA‑specific m...
The One, Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB) enacted for 2025 changes itemized-deduction rules by raising temporary caps on certain deductions and layering in income-based phaseouts rather than a single flat c...
Several 2025–2026 federal proposals and enacted laws touch Social Security taxation: enacted 2025 legislation called the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) created a new $6,000 senior deduction that redu...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative public database for federal contracts and shows hundreds of companies with active awards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); prominent names that ...
——has moved through the legislative process to adopt the new federal deductions for tips and overtime wages effective in 2026; most other states are either decoupling, waiting for 2026 sessions, or re...
Multiple major technology and government‑contracting companies continued to hold active contracts with ) in 2025–2026, including , , and , while several international firms such as and also appear on ...
Tariffs introduced in 2025 have contributed a measurable bump to U.S. inflation: central estimates put the near-term addition to headline PCE at roughly 0.4–0.5 percentage points (June–August annualiz...
If Congress does nothing, the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 will expire on Dec. 31, 2025, returning subsidy rules to pre‑enhancement ...
A small handful of states have already taken explicit positions on whether to “conform” to the for qualified tips and qualified overtime introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill; most states remain un...
Courts and legislators from 2020–2025 have split liability into two tracks: civil copyright and tort claims against AI developers and platform operators, and criminal/regulatory actions targeting AI-g...
Combined (or provisional) income determines whether up to 50% or up to 85% of Social Security benefits are included in taxable income; provisional income is generally AGI + tax‑exempt interest + 50% o...
The 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) did not repeal the taxation rules for Social Security benefits; instead it created a new $6,000 senior deduction (per eligible individual) for 2025–2028 and l...
In 2018 the most widely documented corporate break from was consulting giant , which told it would end its work for ICE amid employee and alumni unrest in July of that year . At the same time some loc...
For the 2025 tax year, the biggest income-sensitive limits affect the SALT deduction (raised to $40,000 but phased down for higher MAGI) and upcoming overall limits on itemized deductions and charitab...
Reuters is part of a for‑profit corporate group controlled largely by the Thomson family (via Woodbridge) and operates as a global commercial wire service within Thomson Reuters . The Associated Press...
U.S. tax rules treat pay for services the same regardless of a worker’s immigration status: wages paid to undocumented workers can be subject to income, Social Security, Medicare, and payroll withhold...
Filing status changes the thresholds and calculations that determine whether any Social Security benefits are included in taxable income: for single filers face lower "provisional income" thresholds (...
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