DEFENDING DE MINIMIS: Motivated by the possibility of House action, business groups are honing their arguments in defense of the current $800 threshold for low-value shipments that can enter the ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved an order extending the swap-dealer de minimis threshold phase-in date by a year. The de minimis threshold drop was originally scheduled to ...

The De Minimis Tax Rule: An Overview . The de minimis tax rule sets the threshold at which a discount bond should be taxed as a capital gain rather than as ordinary income.

Small packages are a big problem for the United States these days. A decade ago, the US government raised the so-called “de minimis” threshold on imports from $200 to $800. This means any ...

Explore the New Trump de minimis bombshell and find out if the $800 threshold will be axed for all countries. ... At that point, the duty-free de minimis threshold will be axed for everyone.

On October 26, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued an order postponing the automatic lowering of the swap dealer de minimis threshold. Instead of dropping from $8 ...

For example, if rates rose 202 basis points, 27% of the market be at risk of trading in de minimis territory, according to Block's research. Ramirez used the Merrill Muni Master Index to gauge its ...

As the Federal Reserve board begins its meeting today on the cost of short-term borrowing, a large segment of municipal bonds that trade at or near a market discount are suddenly unwanted by many ...