Laura Davison

Just under a month into federal tax filing season, the IRS reported a 32 percent slide in the number of refunds sent out compared with last year, showcasing delays that have spurred Democrats to call for postponing the traditional April 15 deadline.

Households will begin receiving the $1,400 stimulus payments included in the pandemic-relief bill approved by Congress before the end of March, according to the White House.

The legislation includes a massive, one-year expansion to the child tax credit program aimed at curbing child poverty, a change Democrats are already seeking to make permanent.

President Joe Biden is on the cusp of his first legislative win with the House ready to give final passage to his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan. It includes a big expansion in the child tax credit and makes student loan forgiveness tax free.

Senate Democrats passed the latest version of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill after a more than 24-hour voting session that included the longest single vote in the chamber’s history.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is probing whether executives at four drug industry companies plan to use a pandemic-related tax break to deduct opioid settlement payments.

Two Senate committee chiefs are looking at ways to raise taxes on companies paying workers less than $15 an hour, as part of a new strategy to include President Joe Biden’s push to boost the minimum wage to that level in his COVID-19 aid bill.

The Biden administration will give exclusive access to the Paycheck Protection Program to the nation’s smallest businesses for two weeks as part of a broader effort to steer federal aid to the most vulnerable parts of the economy.

Three House Democrats are pushing legislation that would repeal the carried-interest tax break used by fund managers to reduce the levies they owe to the Internal Revenue Service.

The U.S. federal tax-filing season that begins Friday will be among the most consequential in recent history, as households face potential surprises — both negative and positive — sorting through pandemic-related measures at a time of high unemployment and depressed consumer confidence.

The House Ways and Means Committee advanced legislation that would infuse households with hundreds of billions of dollars of cash through direct payments and tax credits, a key plank of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package.

Hopes among millions of upper-income and middle-class taxpayers for a repeal of the Trump administration’s limits on their federal deductions will likely be on hold for now, as an effort to include the measure in the COVID-19 aid package is poised to fail.

Lawmakers have introduced several measures that would expand the so-called child tax credit, which currently provides parents $2,000 per child annually.

House Democrats on Monday released the first draft text for key pieces of legislation that will comprise President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill.

House Democrats are proposing to limit the next round of COVID-19 relief payments to households earning less than $200,000, after criticism that President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package would benefit the rich.

Senator Mitt Romney is offering a child tax credit expansion plan similar to a proposal President Joe Biden is pushing to include in the next stimulus bill, offering a glimpse of areas on which Republicans and Democrats could find compromise in a bipartisan package.

Senator Elizabeth Warren will join the Finance Committee, an A-list Senate panel that oversees tax, trade and health care legislation, according to a person familiar with the assignment.

Democrats are pushing a tax cut that would benefit individuals who lost their jobs in 2020 and may be in for a surprise tax bill this spring.

Small businesses in Nebraska, Oklahoma and other rural states have been the most successful at getting federal pandemic relief in the $284 billion round of aid that opened this month, buoyed by a new rule that authorizes loans to many farms that didn’t qualify before.

Two New Jersey Democrats are leading an effort to expand a valuable tax break for state and local levies in the next virus-relief package, a long-shot effort as lawmakers continue to squabble over the size and scope of the next round of stimulus.