Tax Bytes: Week of March 31, 2025

Upcoming Eversheds Sutherland event Join us for a two-day controversy seminar in Washington, DC covering legislative reviews, state, federal, and international tax updates, LB&I hot topics, appeals, transfer pricing, litigation, and more. Register here …

Maine real estate agents are split over this Democratic idea to fund housing

Housing This section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here. In the four decades that Peter McPheeters has been a real estate …

No tax holiday for Sandals

If the State is to re­vis­it and fund the San­dals mega-project in To­ba­go, the ho­tel must pay prop­er rates of tax and rates of pay to its staff. There ought to be no tax hol­i­days or con­ces­sions if the en­tire com­plex is to be fund­ed by pub­lic …

Staunton's proposed budget includes increase in real estate tax rate: THE AGENDA

Maxime Bernier pitches sweeping tax cuts during campaign stop on P.E.I.

The leader of the People's Party of Canada pledged to "abolish" the capital gains tax, along with a slew of other programs if his party forms the next federal government.  Maxime Bernier made a campaign stop in Prince Edward Island on …

The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2025

The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2025 represents the latest Republican-led effort to eliminate federal estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, reigniting a decades-long debate over wealth taxation. Recently, a group of leading trust and estate …

How I’d Invest $6,000 in Canadian Real Estate Stocks to Build Lasting Wealth

The Canadian real estate landscape is facing some interesting challenges right now. It’s got positive long-term fundamentals according to industry experts like CBRE, but is also dealing with short-term pressure from the ongoing trade tensions with the …

LA council wants to tap ‘mansion tax’ fund for $15 million in wildfire rental assistance

The Los Angeles City Council is requesting a report on an effort to re-allocate some $15 million from the city’s so-called “mansion tax” to an emergency rental assistance program for survivors of January’s wildfires. In a 14-0 vote Tuesday, two years to …

Radford Council to consider R.E. tax hike, other increases

By DAVID QUESENBERRY Patriot Publishing Radford City Council will advertise a 13-cent increase in the city’s real estate tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year.   During its Monday night budget session, Council authorized staff to proceed with …

Can I give my buy-to-let to my son to avoid inheritance tax?

My wife and I own a buy-to-let property and have done so for the last 14 years. I am thinking of giving it to my son. After gifting we shall have no interest in the property whatsoever. What is my son’s and my tax position, and the inheritance tax …