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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.

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats signaled they’re intent on a large pandemic relief bill.

There are many more checklists for accountants in the industry.

There’s debate within the administration about how to meet President Biden's promise to issue Americans another $1,400 each in stimulus checks.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said President Joe Biden’s administration has shown a readiness to clinch an agreement on how to tax global tech companies, potentially overcoming an American block and paving the way for an accord later this year.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday talked with her U.K. and German counterparts about resolving mushrooming disputes over the taxation of internet giants such as Facebook Inc., highlighting the issue as a priority in her initial bilateral calls.

Wage and Investment Division head Ken Corbin will take on the role in addition to his current job.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’s ready to start moving on a Democrat-only COVID-19 relief plan as soon as next week if Republicans continue to reject President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposal.

Janet Yellen won confirmation to become U.S. Treasury secretary, building out President Joe Biden’s team as the administration struggles to win bipartisan support for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan for shoring up a weakening economic recovery.

America’s governors aren’t waiting for Washington to stimulate their economies.

AICPA CEO Barry Melancon gave an annual presentation for the Accountants Club of America that discussed accountants and small business clients.

A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives signaled that congressional Democrats will move aggressively during the Biden administration to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, telling a judge “enough is enough.”

Some leading organizations are taking the SEC’s cue and tightening up their filings to provide stakeholders with better clarity, focus and insight.

Thanks to vagaries of the accounting world, Donald Trump’s administration had a chance in the final weeks of the presidential race to cancel more than $200 billion of student loans with no immediate hit to the Department of Education’s massive portfolio. Yet it didn’t do it. Now, perhaps Joe Biden will.

The Treasury Secretary-designate said she would work with lawmakers to fast-track a series of tax increases on corporations and wealthy Americans.

President Biden has picked Allison Herren Lee, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the acting chair of the SEC, as nominee Gary Gensler waits in the wings as a more permanent chair once he is confirmed by the Senate.

Albert J. Pirro Jr., a former business partner of Donald Trump and the ex-husband of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, was pardoned by the departing president on his last day in office at the end of a flurry of clemency.

President Joe Biden plans to extend a freeze on federal student-loan repayments until at least the end of September, keeping in place a pandemic measure that’s reduced costs for tens of millions of borrowers.

Investigators probing Donald Trump’s finances have gotten hold of some of his tax records, allowing them to move ahead even without a Supreme Court order that would give them eight years of his returns.

President-elect Joe Biden’s team of financial regulators is taking shape, with progressive favorites being chosen for the top jobs at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — moves that mean Wall Street should prepare itself for a new era of tougher oversight and stricter rules.