President Joe Biden's plan is designed to boost IRS funding to lower the tax gap and raise $700 billion over 10 years.
Tax planning has become an urgent topic following President Joe Biden's proposal aimed at high earners and wealthy investors.
An unscientific poll of readers found 61% disapproving of Biden and 60% opposing his proposed tax increases. The survey was released on April 29, Biden’s 100th day in office.
The heads of the Senate and House committees overseeing labor want to know whether TDFs are working as advertised.
While plaintiffs continue to develop many theories and new claims, one type of claim that has appeared with increasing frequency in 401(k) litigation 2.0 is an allegation that deciding to offer additional services to plans and their participants creates conflicts.
A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of the case. The savings system is not a plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and is therefore not preempted by the law, the panel wrote in the opinion published yesterday.
Expanded government crackdowns on syndicated conservation easement land deals are creating financial and legal headaches for some wealthy investors.
Consumer research firm Hearts & Wallets surveyed 5,900 people and found that most have no idea how they pay for financial services.
Advisers should note that no matter how stable a relationship may seem, contingencies should be baked into estate and financial plans in case of divorce, especially for wealthy clients, experts say.
Atlanta-based Clearview Advisory serves more than 100 plans with $2.3 billion in assets.
President Joe Biden is considering a proposal to almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to 39.6%. The looming increase could add urgency to the market.
A new tool tracks spending and sends alerts about unpaid bills and potential elder fraud, helping families to organize and protect the daily finances of an aging loved one.
The bill, which advances to the House floor with a strong bipartisan push, would raise the RMD age from 72 to 75, among many other provisions.
The recent Government Accountability Office report and even more recent Department of Labor guidance on cybersecurity hammer home the reality that protecting plan and especially participant data has become a fiduciary responsibility.
'Investment risk' doesn't mean the same thing to everyone, and some words work better than others, according to a report from Invesco.
U.S. companies are the group most likely to see a tax increase given the amount of revenue that could bring in, the CEO of Rockefeller Capital said.
The bill, which builds on the SECURE Act, would raise the required minimum distribution age from 72 to 75 over 10 years.
A new Morningstar report presents proxy voting as a backdoor entry to ESG investing for retirement plan participants. As advocates pressure for simpler proxy voting procedures, retail investors could gain considerable leverage.
Ending the step-up in basis and raising the capital gains tax rate would amount to the biggest curb on dynastic wealth in decades.
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