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The six largest financial institutions could see net income jump by an average of 14 percent if the president delivers on his promise to cut corporate rates.

Republicans are looking at limiting a tax exclusion used by employers that’s worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, as a way to pay for changes to the health care system.

The House Ways and Means Committee chairman rejected a call by some Democrats to use his authority to view the president’s tax returns.

GOP lawmakers are hearing arguments from retailers and other companies that the import changes would hurt consumers. But a new report suggests solid information may be hard to come by.

A municipal bond investor doesn’t think the president and the Republican-led Congress will do away with the incentive given to buyers of state and local government debt.

A news report that the European Union and other U.S. trading partners are preparing to challenge House leaders’ proposal to overhaul U.S. corporate taxes spurred the plan’s leading congressional advocate to declare that it would survive “any challenge that they bring.”

Taxpayers are excited, expectant and confused about the Trump administration’s plans – all at once.

The former bank executive will fill the role of chief spokesman for the dollar and steward for the Trump administration’s economic priorities.

As lawmakers in Congress mull the real possibility of a tax overhaul, various proposals are being debated before legislation is introduced.

There is no question there are different kinds of complexity for returns.

A group of prominent GOP and business leaders backing a tax on carbon dioxide were taking their case Wednesday to top White House aides, including chief economic adviser Gary Cohn.

Republican tax-writers have become tight-lipped about their schedule for advancing what they’ve called the biggest overhaul in three decades.

Tax season is a busy time and there is a temptation to take a shortcut on procedures, skip some extra training or sidestep an extra effort to be in touch with a client. Succumbing to these and other temptations is a shortsighted mistake that should be avoided.

The new administration is delivering on bankers’ wish lists and sending shares of the biggest U.S. financial companies soaring.

This year, tax reform could give U.S. companies access to hundreds of billions of dollars they have stashed overseas. Many corporations can’t wait that long.

Year gets off to a strong start, although the unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth of a percent to 4.8 percent as more people returned to the workforce.

Confidence in the U.S. economy among business leaders has climbed sharply in the wake of the presidential election, according to a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The president faces a major hurdle in fulfilling his pledge to undo the financial reform law: persuading enough Dems to go along.

The president pledged to repeal a decades-old provision of tax law that prevents pastors from endorsing candidates, recommitting to a campaign promise during a speech at his first National Prayer Breakfast in which he veered into politics and pop culture and even used a mild profanity..

When White House press secretary Sean Spicer floated the idea of paying for a border wall with a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports, beer went flat.