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Tax deduction for tips earned by certain occupations
—federally funded SNAP (food stamp) benefits have never been available to undocumented immigrants, though members of mixed‑status households who are U.S. citizens or otherwise “qualified” noncitizens ...
Beginning with tax year 2026, Forms W-2 and the 1099 series will be revised to require separate reporting of “qualified tips” and “qualified overtime compensation,” ending the temporary transition rel...
——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...
A massive 2025–2026 dramatically expanded and headcounts and forced rapid reconfiguration of training pipelines, with agencies and training centers claiming new capacity while critics warn of truncate...
’s appropriations for ) have moved from steady baseline funding to a recent era of large supplemental transfers and political fights: the last two years alone show multi‑billion-dollar infusions tied ...
The largely preserves traditional AGI‑based caps on charitable deductions (notably the permanent 60% limit for cash gifts to public charities) while making 2025 a strategic year to accelerate giving a...
rose sharply in fiscal 2024, driven principally by concentrated enforcement wins—most notably a $513 million haul by ’s —which helped MFCUs report $1.4 billion in recoveries overall . New state laws a...
The best publicly available contingency estimates put roughly 19,600 ICE employees — about 95–96% of ICE’s onboard workforce in 2025 — into the “excepted” or retained category that continues working d...
Federal rules governing whether Social Security benefits are included in taxable income are changing in 2026 at both the national and state levels, producing a patchwork of outcomes: Congress is consi...
The scheduled 2026 reversion of ACA premium-subsidy rules will raise out-of-pocket premium costs for many low- and moderate-income households by shrinking subsidy amounts, reinstating the 400%-of-FPL ...
Yes — Social Security benefits can still be federally taxable for retired seniors in tax year 2026, but changes enacted in 2025 and state-level rollbacks mean many retirees will face reduced or no fed...
Specified service trade or business () is the statutory category that can block certain tax benefits for higher‑income pass‑through owners, and /IRS guidance has long grouped occupations such as healt...
The prompted and its training partners to compress and reshape academy pipelines: deportation () tracks moved to an accelerated roughly 6–8 week surface program while investigative () tracks largely k...
— often called “provisional income” or “combined income” — is a formulaic construct used by the and to decide whether some portion of retirement benefits are included in federal taxable income: combin...
Payroll vendors and HR systems must begin mapping and capturing two discrete new W‑2 Box 12 fields—TP for tips and TT for qualified overtime—by separating these amounts from existing pay codes, record...
Employers must update payroll systems to capture and separately report qualified overtime and tip amounts beginning with tax year 2026, because the finalized (new Box 12 codes TT and TP and new Box 14...
in 2025 enacted a suite of domestic immigration measures that combined statutory changes, sweeping executive orders and proclamations, and regulatory actions—most prominently the (H.R.1) and a string ...
The federal income tax in the United States is a progressive, marginal tax system with seven ordinary-income rates for tax year 2026: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37% . The IRS adjusted the 2026 b...
Expanding the U.S. federal law enforcement workforce by “tens of thousands” would require a mix of appropriations across multiple annual spending bills, targeted supplemental or mandatory funding auth...
Employers historically have no single, federally mandated, standardized set of short codes for overtime reporting in Box 14 of Form W‑2; Box 14 is a catch‑all “Other” field where employers may label e...