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If the Moores win broadly in Moore v. USA, Democrats can kiss goodbye their dreams of wealth taxes on unrealized gains.

Several of the court’s conservative justices seemed skeptical of an argument against taxing undistributed income from investments in foreign companies.

President Volodymyr Zelenksy signed a law that resumes tax inspections for businesses, the online portal of the Ukrainian parliament announced on Dec. 6.

If the Supreme Court rules for the government in Moore v. U.S., all unrealized gains will be taxable under existing law.

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), as the internal revenue tax collecting body of the government, is empowered to use administrative and judicial remedies in collecting delinquent taxes, or taxes which are already due and demandable.

What is the reason?

The Supreme Court is taking up a case Tuesday over a Washington couple's $15,000 tax bill that is widely seen as a test of a never-enacted tax on wealth. A decision in favor of Charles and Kathleen Moore of Redmond, Washington, could strike down a provision of the 2017 tax bill that is expected to bring in $340 billion, threaten other provisions of the tax code and rule out a wealth tax that is favored by some Democrats who argue that the wealthiest Americans don't pay their fair shar...

 

THE tax code is a road map for law-abiding citizens and businesses to pay what they fairly owe, not an obstacle course to be gamed and gotten around. – Max Baucus

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a tax on foreign income while leaving questions about a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth for another day. On the first...