Corporate taxes

The senator really hates it when corporations that report billions of dollars in profit pay little or no tax to Uncle Sam.

Some of the largest U.S. technology companies pushed for a corporate tax overhaul in 2017 by suggesting they would go on hiring sprees and boost the economy. Just over a year after getting what they wanted, data show these firms gave most of their huge tax savings to investors.

Argued a century ago, Eisner v. Macomber helped establish the treatment of dividends.

The European Union has taken a closer look at how the search giant uses operations in Ireland to help reduce its corporate tax obligations.

The Democratic presidential candidate rolled out a proposal to levy a 7 percent tax to raise an estimated $1 trillion from the wealthiest businesses.

Corporate America brought $664.9 billion of offshore profits back to the U.S. last year, falling short of the $4 trillion President Donald Trump said would return as a result of the 2017 tax overhaul.

The final rules offer guidance on the penalty for failing to include information that’s supposed to be disclosed under the Small Business Jobs Act and how to calculate the amount.

There’s no question that U.S. taxation of intellectual property has become amazingly more complex after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Globalization presents both tremendous opportunities for business, but also significant challenges.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island introduced a pair of bills aimed at stopping corporations from using offshore tax havens and outsourcing jobs to other countries.

The Internal Revenue Service has indefinitely extended a pilot program for private letter rulings for corporate taxpayers.

The European Union’s inability to agree on taxing Internet giants like Google and Amazon shows the need for majority voting at the soon-to-be 27-member bloc, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.

New tax incentives might not be enough to convince Corporate America to expand its U.S. operations beyond what it was already planning.

Execs in a new BDO survey don’t see the economy staying strong beyond two years.

Dave Auclair and Dustin Stamper of Grant Thornton's Washington National Tax Office look at the winners and losers from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, issues that are still unresolved and areas of the law taxpayers and their advisors need to pay more attention to.

The e-commerce giant scrapped a deal this month to open offices in New York after clashing with local politicians and is backing out of another battle.

The e-commerce giant does not plan to pay the IRS anything this tax season. Yet that’s not largely because of President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul.

The ratings agency is putting the spotlight on accounting in the first of a series of reports.

Ailing shopping districts are losing revenue to e-commerce, according to a government report.

Amazon.com Inc. walked away from billions of dollars of public subsidies when it announced Thursday it was abandoning plans for an office complex in New York. But it can still qualify for federal tax breaks intended to help distressed communities by building a new Virginia data center in America’s wealthiest county.