January 18, 2019
The U.S. Treasury today issued final regulations and other guidance on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that allows owners of sole proprietorships, partnerships, trusts, and S corporations to deduct up to 20 percent of their qualified …
August 9, 2018
The Treasury Department has moved to clear up some confusion in the Trump tax cut law by proposing that the full 20 percent deduction for pass-through businesses be made available to a broad spectrum of small businesses, including insurance agents …
May 18, 2018
Some of the biggest U.S. insurers reduced their holdings of state and local government bonds after the corporate tax cut took effect this year, marking a retreat by a key buyer in the $3.9 trillion municipal-securities market. The disclosures, made …
March 7, 2018
The impact of the new U.S. tax law is credit positive for U.S.-based insurance companies, which will boost profitability for many of these firms, particularly those that have been paying high effective tax rates. The Trump tax reform will also …
January 25, 2018
Federal tax reform was a big topic of discussion at the Insurance Information Institute’s 2018 P/C Joint Industry Forum, with panelist Jay Gelb of Barclays Capital stating the recently passed tax law is going to be “a clear bottom-line benefit …
December 4, 2017
Expiring tax cuts, business perks and health care politics loom over House and Senate Republicans as they face the daunting task of hammering out the differences between their competing bills to rewrite the U.S. tax code. Different versions of the …