Maryland Daily RecordOpinion

Updated recordation and transfer tax guide is released for MD

Maryland’s new recordation and transfer tax guide simplifies complex real estate taxes, updates key laws, and explains ...
Business Wire

New National Report Finds Real Estate Transfer Taxes Suppress Housing Supply, Harm Lower-Income Families, and Fail to Deliver on Promised Revenues

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study by the Sage Policy Group shows that real estate transfer taxes, one-time levies on property sales, cause serious unintended consequences in jurisdictions ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moves to ‘cut off’ illegal migrants from tax benefits, cross-border money transfers: ‘No place for you in our financial system’

At [President Trump’s] direction, we are working to cut off federal benefits to illegal aliens and preserve them for U.S.
The San Bernardino Sun

Homeowners beware: How transfer taxes steal your equity

As a homeowner, you dutifully pay your property taxes every year, no matter how painful. Notwithstanding Proposition 13’s tax limitations, California is not a low property tax state. According to the ...
The Real Deal

SF supervisor proposes law to cut transfer taxes for union pension-backed apartments

Four years ago, San Francisco hiked the transfer tax for the sale of large apartment buildings. Now a candidate for mayor wants to lower the tax for those backed by union pension funds. San Francisco ...
Financial Advisor

The Estate And Gift Tax Exemption Is NOT 'Sunsetting'

Separately, the lifetime gift and estate tax exemption (the amount you can transfer over your lifetime and at death before paying federal estate or gift tax) is scheduled to rise to an ...