In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Revenue Services announced on March 30, 2020 that the March and April due date (and associated payment) for sales and use tax returns or room occupancy tax returns to be filed
On Friday, March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Bipartisan Proposal for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (also known as the “CARES Act”). The Cares Act is a massive 2.2 trillion dollar package that contains a
On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). Among other things, the FFCRA requires employers with less than 500 employees to (i) provide up to 12 weeks of partially-paid
In a joint statement issued Friday by three State agencies, including the Department of Revenue Services, the agencies announced the temporary suspension, through May 15, 2020, of the ten-cent fee that became effective during the summer of 2019 on the
Now that the dust has begun to settle with respect to understanding the retirement plan and IRA changes in the federal law known as Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the federal “SECURE Act”) that was
Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced on March 21, 2020 that the federal income tax filing due date has been automatically extended from April 15, 2020 to July 15, 2020. The
Prompted by COVID-19, the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) is granting an automatic extension of Connecticut filing deadlines for some Connecticut tax returns due on or after March 15, 2020, and before June 1, 2020.
The returns subject to
On Wednesday, March 11, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Notice 2020-15 published its first formal guidance addressing the developing public health emergency wrought by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The Notice provides that a high deductible health plan (HDHP) that
Lou Schatz will be a panelist during the “Emerging State and Local Tax Issues” session of the Practising Law Institute‘s Hot Topics in State and Local Tax 2020.
Topics Include
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (now Pub. L. 116-94) (the “Appropriations Act”), which, among other things, contains the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act (the
