Finance

The Internal Revenue Service spent $15 million on a delayed implementation of an upgraded system for handling an aspect of the Foreign Account Tax and Compliance Act, but the software did not deliver the expected business results, according to a new report.

Hillary Clinton wants roughly $550 billion in new taxes and fees over the next decade—affecting investment partnerships, large estates and banks—that have received little to no public discussion from her campaign, a report from a Washington-based policy group shows.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has dropped a major tax cut for businesses organized as pass-through entities, including partnerships, from his tax overhaul proposals, according to the latest version of those plans.

Donald Trump will tout his plan to cut taxes for individuals and businesses on Thursday as a way to stimulate economic growth, but a question that has loomed over the proposal for roughly a year will remain a topic of debate among economists: By how much would Trump’s tax cuts reduce federal revenue?

Ivanka Trump helped introduce her father's childcare plan in suburban Philadelphia on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that she was a driving force behind the proposal to make child care expenses tax deductible.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s child-care plan would guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave to working mothers, and Trump’s daughter Ivanka will join him in suburban Pennsylvania as he discusses the issue, his campaign said Tuesday.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, earned adjusted gross income of $113,026 in 2015 and paid $8,956 in federal income taxes, according to a copy of the Republican vice presidential nominee’s return that was released Friday—a move toward transparency that his running mate, Donald Trump, has yet to make.

It’s back to school for university endowments and U.S. lawmakers.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, released a discussion draft of proposed legislation that would prevent taxpayers from putting more than $5 million in an individual retirement account.

Republican Donald Trump is proposing a big tax cut for companies like Apple Inc., which would see its tax rate slashed on about $200 billion of profit it keeps offshore.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out proposals to streamline financing and taxes for entrepreneurs and small businesses while telling business owners that Republican Donald Trump would put his interests ahead of their own.

Venture investors, facing the possibility of bigger tax bills, are trying to convince Washington that they’re special and should be exempt.

Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign said Monday that Republican Donald Trump’s proposals to overhaul the federal tax system would benefit “high-debt investors like himself,” opening a new line of attack.

Although the tax positions of the two major candidates would face major hurdles before either one becomes law, interested observers have wasted no time in dissecting them, praising them or pointing out defects.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could have cut her 2015 federal tax bill roughly in half—lopping about $1.7 million from what she owed—under the plan offered by Republican rival Donald Trump.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is urging Congress to exempt Olympic medalists from taxes on their medals and monetary bonuses.

Donald Trump’s campaign is preparing to tweak one of his boldest tax proposals out of concern that it might lead some high-income earners to try “to scam the system,” one of the Republican presidential nominee’s economic advisers said.

Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump's economic plan as a boon to the wealthiest Americans, including himself and his family, that will only increase the burden on middle-income taxpayers already pressured by stagnant wages.

When Donald Trump first rolled out his tax plan last October, it contained a major boon for the middle-class—a near quadrupling of the standard income-tax deduction, to $25,000 for individuals and $50,000 for couples filing jointly.

Small-business and manufacturers’ groups praised a proposal by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to take the U.S. federal corporate tax from the highest to one of the lowest among developed nations.