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The new regs clarify what property and businesses will qualify for the tax break.
December 19 -
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to pare back regulations championed by President Barack Obama that were intended to prevent American companies from moving profits offshore to avoid taxes.
November 1 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released a draft version of a proposed tax form to collect information about qualified opportunity zones.
October 31 -
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he had no knowledge that his long-time friend and billionaire Michael Milken would benefit from a tax break his agency approved last year for a property in Nevada.
October 30 -
The Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations to help taxpayers avoid negative tax consequences in the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate and other interbank rates to newer reference rates.
October 8 -
They say the political process is more appropriate than the courts.
October 1 -
The president spoke a day after deciding against cutting the tax on capital gains by indexing gains to inflation.
September 13 -
The administration claims the Committee on Ways and Means — controlled by Democrats — is improperly attempting to enlist the judiciary in its fight with the Executive Branch.
September 9 -
The protocols represent the first updates to U.S. tax treaties in nearly a decade.
August 30 -
The move would slash the tax payable on any asset that’s appreciated in value over a lengthy period of time.
August 30 -
House Democrats’ lawsuit seeking to quickly compel the Treasury Department and IRS to hand over the president’s tax returns won’t be decided faster than any ordinary case.
August 30 -
A group of 42 Senate Democrats has sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, urging him to refrain from unilaterally cutting capital gains taxes without congressional approval.
August 8 -
A federal judge in Montana overturned an Internal Revenue Service rule that would allow many political nonprofit groups to keep their donor lists private.
July 31 -
Senator Ted Cruz is pressuring Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to quickly deliver a tax cut to investors by indexing capital gains to inflation.
July 30 -
The Trump administration hasn’t committed yet to index capital gains to inflation, even as White House officials continue to pursue the plan.
July 19 -
The U.S. and France agreed to push ahead with creating a global digital tax system at a Group of Seven meeting, papering over a feud on the matter that still has Washington dangling threats of tariffs.
July 18 -
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are again suing President Donald Trump’s administration over a provision in the 2017 tax law that limited write-offs for state and local taxes.
July 17 -
A Democratic senator is pushing back against the Trump administration’s plans to cut taxes by indexing capital gains to inflation, a move that he says would only help the wealthy and be illegal.
July 12 -
A judge has been assigned to a lawsuit by congressional Democrats seeking access to the president’s tax returns.
July 5 -
Finance Ministers from Group of 20 nations agreed they need to find a common method to tax technology giants, whose digital business models have grown exponentially faster than systems to tax them.
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