Capital gains taxes

The former Treasury Secretary proposed a suite of steps the U.S. government can take to raise trillions of dollars more in revenue from the rich without adopting a wealth tax.

Plenty of tax deferral and impact investment runway is left even if clients miss the Dec. 31 deadline.

The tax break included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that encourages real estate investors to develop projects in economically distressed communities in exchange for deferring capital gains taxes for years has come under fire for not living up to its promise.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, teamed up with several of his fellow Democrats on new legislation and investigations of reported abuses of the opportunity zone tax break for real estate investors.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released a draft version of a proposed tax form to collect information about qualified opportunity zones.

Pulling back the curtain in the land of OZ, and other gain deferral strategies to consider.

The 2017 Republican tax overhaul in the U.S. could provide relief for billionaire art collectors stung by the expiration of another major tax break.

The president has decided against making an end-run around Congress to cut the tax on capital gains by indexing gains to inflation.

The senator is taking a slightly different approach to targeting the same non-wage income as proposals from Democratic presidential hopefuls.

The president is scheduled to meet with economic advisers Wednesday to discuss the possibility of cutting the tax on capital gains by indexing gains to inflation.