More than 230 years ago, one of the first acts of the First Congress in 1789 included a relatively mundane, but important, tax policy allowing a refund on excise taxes. Unfortunately, this has become ...

In 2022, lawmakers introduced a new excise tax on stock repurchases. This one percent tax applies to net share repurchases of large corporations and was projected to raise $73.6 billion over a decade.

On November 24, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued final regulations on Section 4501, 1 which imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded ...

A proposed section in the U.S. House of Representatives version of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) would impose a 3.5 percent excise tax on a remittance of money. This proposal has wide-ranging ...