Finance

Small-business and manufacturers’ groups praised a proposal by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to take the U.S. federal corporate tax from the highest to one of the lowest among developed nations.

Donald Trump has cast himself as the establishment’s worst nightmare, but his new economic plan borrows heavily from the traditional Republican playbook in seeking to return the U.S. economy to the pre-crisis days of headier growth.

Donald Trump on Monday sought to cast Hillary Clinton’s economic program as an ineffective relic, and to reset his own presidential campaign after a string of missteps.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett ripped into Republican Donald Trump Monday over his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies, and his attack on a fallen soldier’s family, repeating a famous phrase from the McCarthy era, “have you no sense of decency, sir?”

He made his name in academia by criticizing a lucrative tax break for private-equity managers. Now Victor Fleischer is taking his anti-loophole thinking to Washington.

Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, a CPA who joined Congress in 2011, has released a tax reform plan only weeks after House Republican leaders unveiled their own.

A tax credit that helped prop up the housing market in the wake of the 2008 mortgage crisis could be set for a comeback.

Democrats are courting progressive-minded Americans by calling for a tax on Wall Street trades. If the party succeeds, the mom-and-pop investors they’re wooing could bear the brunt.

The Democratic Party’s proposed 2016 platform supports “a financial transaction tax on Wall Street”—but presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is focused on a narrower approach that isn’t likely to target big banks.

Municipal bonds are becoming concentrated in a fewer number of hands and that may not be good for bondholders and states and local governments.