Donald Trump

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.

CEO fields questions about political leanings.

House Ways and Committee chairman Kevin Brady—fresh from a public-relations blitz aimed at selling a controversial plan for taxing U.S. businesses’ domestic sales and imports—now has to persuade his fellow Republicans in Congress.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order dated January 20, the date of his inauguration, paving the way for the eventual repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Kellyanne Conway clarified her remarks about the president’s tax returns in a statement that leaves open the possibility he will never release them.

President promises a "very major" border tax and said he would cut regulations by 75 percent at a breakfast meeting with business leaders.

Joanne Barry of the New York State Society of CPAs shares a handful of ways accountants can help their country.

Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump has released a “Contract with the American Voter,” outlining his 100-day plan to “make America Great Again,” including plans for a Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.

With Donald Trump's inauguration at hand, many of the details of what the administration and the GOP Congress plan to do with Obamacare remain uncertain.

PE has the President-elect on speed dial. That may benefit the $2.5 trillion industry as several key issues are put in play.

Senate Democratic leader calls for nominee for White House budget director to withdraw from consideration after failing to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes—a call the transition team quickly rejected.

Wind-power skeptic Donald Trump’s proposed tax reform may have an unintended consequence: threatening wind farms’ balance sheets.

Donald Trump to the rescue? The $8.55 trillion bond market has bucked concerns over mounting company indebtedness and so far resisted fears about the knock-on effects of the potential unraveling of the 35-year-old bull-run in government debt.

President-elect railed against his main political opponent for allowing a tax break that lets some investment managers pay lower tax rates than average workers. After he takes office, he may have no one to blame but himself.

Car maker, fresh from canceling a Mexico factory Donald Trump criticized, expects the incoming president to deliver on promises of tax reform that will benefit U.S. manufacturers.

Chief financial officers predict less gridlock in Congress on tax reform, according to a new survey by Deloitte.