• How to reduce your taxable income and lower your tax bill

    If you want to pay less in taxes, you need to look for ways to reduce the amount of income that is subject to them. Andrew Keshner, MarketWatch's tax reporter, breaks down how to lower your taxable income.

  • Your Kids' Tax Brackets Could Lead to Unequal Inheritances

    Sometimes, divvying things up equally means one child might end up with less because of tax implications. Here’s how to avoid that.

  • Missouri lawmakers discuss eliminating corporate income tax

    MISSOURI — A plan to eliminate the corporate income tax in Missouri continues to be discussed with lawmakers. It's legislation that didn't get passed in the Senate last year. This year, the House has already passed the bill - with the help of Representative Ben Baker's special committee on tax reform. It's currently sitting in []

  • Kemp signs measure to speed up Georgia's income tax cut

    (The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a series of tax bills Thursday, including a measure to speed up a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate. House Bill 1015 lowers the individual income tax rate from 5.49% to 5.39% for the tax years starting Jan. 1, 2024. It decreases the rate by 0.1% annually starting Jan. 1, 2025, until it reaches 4.99%. "Georgians work hard to earn a living, and they should keep more of what they earn," Tony West,...

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • NRL live: Warriors vs Manly, Eels vs Cowboys, Rabbitohs vs Sharks

    The Eels are hosting North Queensland after the Warriors and Manly play out a thrilling 22-22 draw, featuring a controversial penalty in the last minute of regulation that sent the game to golden point. Follow live.

  • Biden and his wife report $620,000 income on 2023 tax returns

    President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, on Monday released tax returns showing that their income rose 7% to $619,976 in 2023 and that the couple paid 23.7% of their income in federal taxes. Biden released the data on the day U.S. taxes for the prior year are due and as the Democrat seeks re-election in 2024. Donald Trump, his Republican opponent, broke with the tradition of presidents making their federal tax returns public, saying he was not able to do so while being audited by the Internal...

  • Muchow: State tax refunds bigger this year because of personal income reduction

    Taxpayers getting back what they paid under the old rates in early 2023.

  • Government to respond to calls for pension claimants to get income tax exemption

    A petition has been signed by more than 10,000 people

  • Delta Air Lines posted $380m pre-tax income in Q1

    Delta Air Lines has seen its pre-tax income for the first quarter of 2024 grow by $163m or 75 per cent to $380m over that of last year. This was revealed in the latest financial results of the airline, which was released on Wednesday. In a statement from the airline made available to The PUNCH, Read More

  • How to restructure salary, investments to cut income tax outgo by Rs 64,557

    Hyderabad-based engineer Rutuj Patil earns well, but more than a fifth of his income goes in tax even though he claims most of the deductions available to him. TaxSpanner estimates that Patil can reduce his tax by almost Rs.65,000 if his company rejigs his pay structure to include some tax-free emoluments and he increases the contribution to the NPS to 10% of his basic salary.Patil should start with the NPS. Under Section 80CCD(2), up to 10% of the basic salary put in the NPS on behalf of the...