Commissioner rettig, thank you for agreeing to testify on 2020 tax Filing Season and the irs handling of challenges that are posed because of the pandemic. 2020 Filing Season got off to its typical start at the end of january. However since then, this Filing Season has been anything but typical. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There is some rumors it might be extended again. I dont know. I have heard that at least once. Despite these extended dialogue deadlines, the tax Filing Season continued with money still filing taxes as usual asy still filing taxes usual. At the same time consistent with Government Shutdown orders and cdc guidance, the irs limited much of its work to essential services, closed a number of facilities and instituted telework policies where practical. Shortstaffed irs during the busiest time of the year. That meant taxpayers experience longer wait times to
Somebody suggested that the last week. Lets start with the markets. Just a remarkable year already but it is hard to believe that the last few sessions, with weve seen with this market is really nothing. It has sort of been sideways. The nasdaq of course has been on a remarkable one but even those gains have not been as large as they were initially before. I want to go to two of my favorites to get an overall assessment for what they think. This is well drip lower and violate key support points or were waiting for the right catalyst, the right spark to send us into the next leg higher. I want to bring in shah balani and che levine. Shah, it is great for the market to go sideways. Were knot accustomed to that this year. I think the reason it is sideways now, charles. The market is taking a breather in here. The trend has been clearly up. All of the days when the market has been up the volume has been great. On down days the volume slept off. That is only positive time. The reversal last
Sockof course is momentum that of course is the momentum behind this rally. Rally seems to be fading, and another interesting piece, we have the Canadian Dollar soaring against the u. S. Dollar with the oil rally. You were mentioning that everything is rallying, and that is true too for bonds. The two year yield carving out a record low and that tells you that bonds are rallying in a big way. While stocks are rallying you have investors going towards the bonds, suggesting they have their eye on the economic picture. The jobs data and nonforeign payrolls coming out tomorrow which will be devastating, not just from an economic standpoint, that from a human standpoint. The question is will we see more of a connection between stocks and the Economic Data or not . Or will we have investors look past the data towards the liquidity that the fed has been providing . Certainly a risk on day. David that is what they have been doing so far. Few mckee got to talk a minutes ago with mary daly, the
You can bet on that. Look at markets right now. We actually come back about 80 points. Stocks rebounded today, about midday on hopes of a vaccine this year. That is coming to the president as he departed the white house for pennsylvania. Despite what we to the this morning which was more grim jobs data. Three million more americans filing for Unemployment Benefits last week. Why the bounceback . We have our market analysts to give their analysis. Some of that is the banks. Summer camps being faced with a decision to open with restrictions or stay closed, leaving many working parents in limbo. What is the cdc recommending . We have a lot more breaking throughout the hour on making money. Cheryl all right. Just a moment ago we were showing you, neil was showing you live pictures. The president is on his way to tour this medical equipment distributor just outside of allentown, pennsylvania. They make gowns, they make masks there but this trip today for him was not before he sat down with
Country. It is going to be a tremendous feeling up optimism. I think the Third Quarter is transitional. We are transitioning into, but it is a transitional period. I think it is going to do good. I think the Fourth Quarter is going to be fantastic. I think next year, all of the fruits of what we have done together between the doctors and Business People and yourself, thank you very much, you are a doctor, all the work from the task force, the people that have worked so hard, we will have a tremendous year year. You will start to see that in the Fourth Quarter, maybe even in pieces of the Third Quarter. That is very transitional. Is there a day of reckoning coming back out vonnie no, pres. Trump no, it is about growth. We could have done it the other way, you spend you dont spend anything and you are flat for years. We have to throw money at it. But we drove money of at the people that lost money unfairly. You saw people yesterday at the white house, they were down and out and became al