Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

I know you’re busy, but don’t overlook end-of-year financial planning

‘Tis the season to be jolly. But don’t get too distracted from important priorities, like end-of-year financial planning. For some orientation, the Federal…

Pay & Benefits

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Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

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

Watchdog finds IRS ‘underfunded, understaffed and at the mercy of shutdowns’

Government Shutdown

‘Mixed reaction’ from IRS employees reporting back to work amid filing season

Agency Oversight

Interior IG: Insider cyber risks threaten nation’s hydropower dams

Federal Newscast

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

Long-awaited guidance from the General Services Administration will help make federal employees whole who must relocate for their job.

Pay

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

Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner join a handful of federal employee organizations to advocate for a quick fix to a complex issue buried in the…

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 tax deductible moving and travel expenses.