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US nears debt ceiling -- budget negotiations continue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • May 13 2011

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) spoke to a skeptical audience at the Economic Council of New York on Monday, stating his preference for a successful compromise in the short-term on deficit reduction, in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, while putting off corporate tax reform for some time in the next two years

Senate Finance Committee holds hearings on budget enforcement and tax policy

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • May 6 2011

The Senate Finance Committee focused on the budget deficit, debt and reforming the tax code

Treasury official discusses carried interest tax treatment

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • May 13 2011

The senior counsel in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, Robert Crnkovich, spoke earlier this week about the likelihood of reforming the tax treatment of partnership carried interest in the current political climate

Ways and Means Committee discusses tax reform

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • May 13 2011

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on Thursday to examine the need for comprehensive tax reform in order to help U.S. companies compete internationally and create jobs for American workers

Financial services legislative and regulatory review - July 25, 2011

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • July 25 2011

Once again, the nation‘s and the worlds attention was fixated on Washington this past week, as both parties continued to play an incredible game of chicken with the debt ceiling issue

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - July 8 2011

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • July 8 2011

It was all debt ceiling again this week, and as of this past Friday there are 25 days until the August 2nd default date, but only 14 days until the July 22nd deadline imposed by the President to give Congress enough time to draft the legislation

Financial services legislative and regulatory update

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • August 5 2011

Although an 11th-hour agreement on the debt ceiling by the congressional leadership was reached, and the US was not forced to default, the collateral damage of this debate was evident late Friday evening when Standard & Poor‘s announced that it was downgrading the US credit rating from AAA to AA

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - July 22 2011

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • July 22 2011

With less than two weeks to go before the U.S. debt ceiling is penetrated, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) abruptly announced that he was pulling out of his seemingly positive negotiations with President Obama