Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

FILE - In this April 12, 2018, file photo, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

GOP lawmakers, IRS watchdogs disagree on tax gap fix

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee and IRS watchdogs have expressed concerns about the size of the agency’s tax gap — hundreds of billions…

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas, the chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, a key Republican lawmaker, wants to overhaul the nation's Social Security program, proposing to gradually increase the retirement age for Social Security and slow the growth of benefits for higher-income workers. Johnson introduced legislation just before the end of the congressional session in early December 2016, that he said would

SSA will need to dip into reserve funds to stay afloat

Federal Newscast

Treasury

Shutdown couldn’t have come at ‘worse time’ for IRS

Federal Drive

FILE- This July 24, 2018, file photo shows a portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form for 2018 in New York. A new rule caps the state and local taxes you can deduct on your federal tax return. That could make more of your income taxable this year, but finding out if the cap affects you, pouncing on other tax breaks, bunching your charitable contributions and planning for a new tax world could help. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Shutdown touches pay and taxes

Federal Report

Trump signs 2019 spending bill, federal pay raise into law

Pay & Benefits

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Senators introduce legislative fix to address tax act’s lingering relocation issue for feds

GSA corrects tax law’s harmful provisions for relocating federal employees

Pay

2 senators urge GSA to act quickly on tax act’s harmful provisions for feds

Susan Prendergast, reference supervisor at the Eudora Welty Library, in Jackson, Miss., adds additional federal tax filing information booklets on a shelf. The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, issued an online calculator for figuring whether money is being set aside, to avoid facing a huge tax bill for 2018.

Tax act having unintended consequences for feds who relocate for work

Federal employee groups are encouraging fast action from the General Services Administration to quickly update tax regulations and write new guidance on…