Finance

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett ripped into Republican Donald Trump Monday over his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies, and his attack on a fallen soldier’s family, repeating a famous phrase from the McCarthy era, “have you no sense of decency, sir?”

He made his name in academia by criticizing a lucrative tax break for private-equity managers. Now Victor Fleischer is taking his anti-loophole thinking to Washington.

Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, a CPA who joined Congress in 2011, has released a tax reform plan only weeks after House Republican leaders unveiled their own.

A tax credit that helped prop up the housing market in the wake of the 2008 mortgage crisis could be set for a comeback.

Democrats are courting progressive-minded Americans by calling for a tax on Wall Street trades. If the party succeeds, the mom-and-pop investors they’re wooing could bear the brunt.

The Democratic Party’s proposed 2016 platform supports “a financial transaction tax on Wall Street”—but presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is focused on a narrower approach that isn’t likely to target big banks.

Municipal bonds are becoming concentrated in a fewer number of hands and that may not be good for bondholders and states and local governments.

House conservatives launched an effort Thursday to force a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner, but action on the motion could be delayed until September.

Options for tax reform are legion — the missing ingredient is leadership

U.S. corporations would get the largest federal income-tax rate cut in history, and their foreign earnings would no longer face domestic taxes when they return to the U.S. under a plan that House Republicans unveiled Friday.