Rich Rubin
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137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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You've heard J.D.
Vance, who's the Republican vice presidential nominee, talk about a $5,000 child tax credit.
But Trump hasn't said that.
And so it's not clear where that would go.
Trump does talk about how the child credit went from $1,000 to $2,000 when he was president.
And so that as part of the 2017 tax law, that parents lost a deduction and personal exemptions for children.
But on net, a lot of households with children came out ahead.
We don't know exactly where each of them is going to be on the estate tax.
We don't know how they're really going to deal with the trade-off of tax cuts and deficits.
So like how much they're really going to insist on trying to pay for or not the tax cuts that they're adding.
And there's a million other small provisions out there that...
On international tax, there's a whole bunch of really complicated things that will have to get dealt with over the course of this debate that will kind of go under the radar even in 2025.
So there's a lot at stake here, and there's a lot that's still unknown.
And even once we really know what the election results are, we still really won't know.
WSJ Your Money Briefing · The IRS Is Expanding Its Alternative Tax-Filing Software · 5 Jun 2024
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So the IRS sees it as an option, as a different way of doing it if you don't want to pay for advice, that they'll offer this for you just like they offer forms for you to fill out.
This is just sort of guiding you through the forms is what direct file does, just like TurboTax does.
The idea was just to give another option to taxpayers, to provide a way for people to file directly with the government using software created by the government without having to go through a third party.
And they thought this might be an option that they could technologically do and that might prove attractive and useful for some subset of people.
So the IRS sees it as an option, as a different way of doing it.
If you don't want to pay for advice, they'll offer this for you just like they offer forms for you to fill out.
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