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Any foreign company considering a merger with an Israeli company (or with an international company related to an Israeli company) should familiarize itself with various aspects of the...

Highlights The Biden Administration on May 28, 2021, released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget. The $6 trillion budget, the largest since World War II, focuses on rebuilding the nations aged infrastructure, augmenting the social safety net and combatting income inequality. The theme is to grow the U.S. economy from the bottom up and middle out, and not from the top down. To fund some of these expenditures, the Biden Administration proposes to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations and t...

Third, the Biden Administrations $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022 also focuses on enhancing taxpayer compliance – including an additional $900 million for audits, as part of a 10.4 percent increase in the IRS budget. In addition to IRS spending, the discretionary spending proposal includes $191 million for the U.S. Department of the Treasurys Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to create a database that tracks the ownership and control of certain companies and organiza...

Income Tax Increases on the Wealthy The Biden Administration proposes to increase income taxes on the wealthy and provide more resources to the IRS to enhance compliance. The headline increases relate to taxing capital gains and qualified dividends at the top ordinary income tax rates and the elimination of the "step up" in basis rule. Increase Top Income Tax Rate. The rate would be increased to 39.6 percent (from 37 percent) for taxpayers within the top 1 percent. 2 Note, the 39.6 percent rate...

Income Tax Increases on the Wealthy The Biden Administration proposes to increase income taxes on the wealthy and provide more resources to the IRS to enhance compliance. The headline increases relate to taxing capital gains and qualified dividends at the top ordinary income tax rates and the elimination of the "step up" in basis rule. Increase Top Income Tax Rate. The rate would be increased to 39.6 percent (from 37 percent) for taxpayers within the top 1 percent. 2 Note, the 39.6 percent rate...