Yellen Argues Capital Gains Hike From April 2021 Not Retroactive By Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested in remarks before a Senate panel that if Congress were to pass a capital-gains tax hike effective starting in April 2021, that wouldn’t count as a retroactive increase. “I don’t see a prospective change in rules pertaining to the taxation of future realization of capital gains as being a retroactive feature,” Yellen told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, when asked about the Biden administration’s tax proposals. President Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the capital-gains tax rate to 39.6% from 20% for those earning $1 million or more was...
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