Leave it to Congress to wait until the very last moment to spring a complicated new tax package on American taxpayers. From Simon Black at sovereignman.com:
You’ve got to hand it to these people– Congress really knows how to bring out the holiday cheer.
They have some sort of pathological need to pass the most absurd legislation at the VERY END OF THE YEAR giving people very little time to react.
Two years ago, for example, they passed comprehensive tax reform in late December 2017… and the new tax code went into effect only a few days later.
Taxpayers had no time to even understand the new law, let alone plan around it.
That’s the funny thing about taxes– people plan their entire lives around the tax code.
They set up special structures, invest in particular assets, and go through all sorts of legal and accounting work, to make sure they’re following the tax code while they take care of their families.
And then, poof, Congress changes the rules overnight.
Well they just did it again.
