House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump's SALT positioning:

Former President Trump called for the elimination of the cap on the state and local tax (#SALT) deduction. Read the full story from Cady Stanton: taxnotes.co/4gnluCi

#IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel’s plan to serve his full five-year term regardless of who wins the November presidential election continues an important trend of maintaining the agency’s impartiality, according to former commissioners. taxnotes.co/3XMSmNt

Figured out where Finance Chair Ron Wyden was today instead of Senate votes: He's in Portland for the announcement of the latest WNBA expansion team! (this is a big day for my crossover interests)

Ron Wyden said he and Sabrina Ionescu have been texting about WNBA to Portland, and she is “fired up.” #GoDucks

The latest bill to end federal taxation of tip income is the first from a member of a taxwriting committee and the first from a Democrat. And it’s the only one to include elimination of the minimum cash wage for tipped workers of $2.13 an hour. taxnotes.co/3Bc6zeb

A new standalone bill introduced by Sens. Romney, Tillis and Manchin, the Employee Retention Tax Credit Repeal Act, splits off the segment of the Wyden-Smith tax deal that disallows ERC claims filed after Jan. 2024: romney.senate.gov/romney-tillis-…

Tillis described himself to reporters on multiple occasions as a firm vote against the Wyden-Smith bill over its use of the early sunset on ERC claims as a pay-for, since the ERC wasn’t paid for when it was created and expanded in a pair of 2020 COVID-related bills.

Join our panelists next Thursday as they analyze the implications of extending or not extending the SALT cap, which is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 along with other key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. ➡️ Register now: events.taxanalysts.org/tawebinar09262…

icymi: Last night, Mary Kay Costello became the 12th openly LGBTQ judicial nominee under President Biden to win confirmation, the most of any administration. Obama set the previous record of 11 LGBTQ federal judges over his 8 years in office. The Hill thehill.com/homenews/senat…

Cloture vote on Tax Court nominee Rose Jenkins set for tomorrow.

New from me: Sen. Warren advocated that Dems should be willing to walk away and let the TCJA expire next year as leverage. “We can't walk into a negotiation saying, ‘No matter what, we'll take a deal.’ No. Nobody comes out of that well on our side.” More:taxnotes.com/tax-notes-toda…

Cloture invoked for Tax Court nominee Rose Jenkins:

Vote scheduled: At 5:30pm, on Monday, September 23rd, the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on confirmation of Executive Calendar #700 Rose E. Jenkins to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.

A full extension of former President Trump’s tax law should be off the table, but some provisions could be kept for middle-income taxpayers, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Read the latest from Ben Valdez: taxnotes.co/4dgolKq

The IRS has provided taxpayers two years to appeal an employee retention credit (#ERC) disallowance but is requiring them to include extensive documentation in their appeal. Read the latest from Ben Valdez: taxnotes.co/3MXxSLK

A’ja Wilson capped off a season of making history Sunday by adding another WNBA MVP trophy to her collection. Wilson, an all-star forward for the Las Vegas Aces, won her third MVP trophy and became only the second unanimous MVP in the league’s history. bit.ly/3XEphCE

Ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, the disgraced NJ dem, will now be sentenced in his federal corruption case on Jan. 29, a delay of three months: thehill.com/regulation/cou…

NOW VOTING: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #700 Rose E. Jenkins to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.

Confirmed, 69-17: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #700 Rose E. Jenkins to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.