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U.S. tax revenue is running as much as $70 billion behind estimates more than halfway through the fiscal year, leaving the government with less cash than planned and adding to pressure on Congress to raise the debt ceiling.
June 8 -
Paul Ryan’s tenure as House speaker will be judged in part on whether he can deliver a Republican tax plan. But rather than spearhead the effort to reach consensus, Ryan is still clinging to his own widely rejected proposal.
June 7 -
Early timelines were ‘overly optimistic,’ but there’s still a strong possibility of change, experts say.
June 6 -
House Republicans are growing frustrated with the lack of any details about the Trump administration’s tax plan, as the slow pace leaves lawmakers in limbo in their negotiations over how to deliver on long promised tax cuts.
June 5 -
Donald Trump filed for an extension to submit his 2016 tax returns, NBC News reported Saturday, citing a White House official, the latest reminder that the billionaire president continues to break with tradition and has not released his tax history.
June 5 -
A pledge not to give the wealthiest Americans an absolute tax cut is coming back to haunt Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
May 26 -
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he agrees that his proposal for a border-adjusted tax needs to be changed if it’s to pass Congress, but he said he’s not giving up on the idea.
May 24 -
Presidents have long used creative math and budget gimmicks to create the illusion that the trillions of dollars in spending they propose will somehow wind up reducing the deficit. Donald Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget is especially ambitious: It combines many of the tricks his predecessors tried over the years, and adds a few of his own.
May 24 -
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said he’s open to reviewing parts of the House Republican tax blueprint as Congress looks for a path forward on trying to make U.S. businesses more competitive globally—even as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin offered his most direct criticism of the plan yet.
May 23 -
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he can’t guarantee that the White House’s goal of no tax cuts for the wealthiest earners will survive the legislative debate.
May 23 -
The Trump administration’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018 would require a Social Security number for claiming either the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Child Tax Credit in an effort to deny the refundable tax credits to undocumented immigrants.
May 23 -
A private investigator in Baton Rouge, La., has been indicted for trying to use the Internal Revenue Service’s online data retrieval tool for student loan applications to access tax information from President Donald Trump.
May 23 -
The president's plan would dramatically reduce the government’s role in society, but relies on a sweeping tax overhaul package that may not happen.
May 23 -
The American Institute of CPAs has sent a list of six tax regulations to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that it wants the Treasury Department to review under an executive order from President Trump calling for reducing overly burdensome tax regulations.
May 16 -
After months of uncertainty about a border-adjusted tax, retail CEOs are renewing efforts to quash the idea.
May 16 -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has taken pains to stress that the Trump administration isn’t out to kill Americans’ beloved mortgage-interest tax deduction—but a side effect of the plan could turn it into a perk for only the wealthy.
May 16 -
The president’s personal lawyers said in a letter that his taxes from the past 10 years show that—with a few exceptions—he received no income from Russian sources and owed no debts to Russian lenders.
May 12 -
The president is leaning toward preserving a trillion-dollar tax break for corporate borrowers—a move that economists say could jeopardize his goal of robust economic growth.
May 12 -
President Donald Trump’s economic team says it won’t be satisfied until Americans workers earn more—and aggressive tax cuts are essential for those fatter paychecks.
May 8 -
President Donald Trump faces many hurdles in delivering his promised tax cut, but none may be more formidable than the congressional calendar.
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