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A taxpayer privacy law protects them from a Freedom of Information Act request, the panel ruled.
December 18 -
Michael Cohen is headed to prison, pledging he will continue to spill potentially damaging information to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other prosecutors.
December 12 -
Officials unleashed a burst of subpoenas seeking financial records that would reveal whether the president is profiting off foreign governments.
December 5 -
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch questioned President Donald Trump’s call to end a tax break for electric cars made by General Motors Co. and others following the company’s announcement that it would lay off workers and close plants.
November 28 -
A legislative repeal of the credit could actually end up giving GM a better competitive position.
November 28 -
Democrats are in discussions about the best way to get the Treasury Department to hand over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, according to the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
November 14 -
The top House Democrat has said demanding the president's tax returns will be one of the first things the new Democratic majority will do, but some party strategists are urging caution.
November 8 -
Democrats may control the House Ways and Means Committee, but neither party is likely to get their way on tax policy.
November 7 -
President Donald Trump said he’s open to raising some tax rates to help pay for a bigger tax break for middle-class Americans.
November 7 -
President Trump and the GOP leader of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee issued a joint statement committing to future legislation.
October 31 -
The chairman of the House tax-writing committee said if Republicans retain the House and the Senate they’ll advance a 10 percent tax cut aimed at middle-income earners.
October 23 -
President Donald Trump said Congress will vote on a new tax cut for middle-class Americans after the midterm elections, even though Republican lawmakers say they have no such legislation in the works.
October 23 -
U.S. corporations have largely abandoned the contentious deals that allowed them to shift their addresses abroad for a lower tax rate. Yet a key part of the transactions is continuing quietly even after President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul.
October 15 -
The tax law gave a last-minute windfall to commercial property owners such as President Donald Trump. But regulations proposed by the Internal Revenue Service could diminish the benefit.
October 11 -
Firms’ winter policies; SALT county by county; new forms and a potentially delayed season; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
October 10
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Tax advantages for bonds funding private hospitals and sports stadiums survived last year’s tax overhaul thanks to an eleventh hour compromise. The securities may be headed for a decline anyway.
October 9 -
Charles Rettig was barely 24 hours into his new job as President Trump’s hand-picked chief tax official when a bombshell news report hit.
October 4 -
New York City will seek any taxes that President Donald Trump should have paid for money he received from his late father, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, following a New York Times report on the transactions.
October 3 -
New York state tax authorities have opened an investigation into allegations reported in the New York Times that President Donald Trump and his family created their real estate empire through “instances of outright fraud,” evading taxes on hundreds of millions of dollars.
October 3 -
President Donald Trump dismissed allegations in a New York Times story that he had received vastly more money from his father than previously admitted — in possible violation of tax laws — as “very old” and “boring.”
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