Investments

The sturdy, reliable real estate investment trust is facing an existential choice.

The former CEO of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board is passing on the chairmanship post to vice-chair Jeffrey Hales.

Hedge-fund billionaires were already struggling to keep investors from heading out the door. Then along came another problem: big tax bills.

The CFA Institute has some advice for investors about the main questions they should be asking about the new revenue recognition standard.

Illinois residents could enjoy lower taxes if their squabbling leaders tackle the debt-riddled state’s biggest problem — its massively underfunded pension system. But that’s a big if.

If you thought trading Bitcoin was wild, try figuring out how to pay taxes on it.

The U.S. budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion by 2020, two years sooner than previously estimated, as tax cuts and spending increases signed by President Donald Trump do little to boost long-term economic growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The Internal Revenue Service knocked down one way for hedge fund managers to dodge restrictions in President Donald Trump’s tax law. But for some managers, there’s still a way out.

Lawmakers are on the cusp of settling on a $1.3 trillion bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend after reaching compromises on a fix to the tax law and other issues.

The Treasury recorded a $215 billion shortfall in February—its largest in six years—as revenue declined after passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

There may be some advantages, particularly for multinationals, with getting an early jump on FASB's changes in the hedging rules.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s plan to fix a gaping loophole for hedge funds in President Donald Trump’s new tax law could face legal challenges.

The Internal Revenue Service’s announcement that it plans to issue regulations clarifying the limitations on carried interest aims to head off a flurry of activity aimed at getting around a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance seeking to close a loophole that hedge-fund managers had been trying to exploit to avoid paying higher taxes on carried-interest profits.

Major corporations have authorized $200 billion in stock purchases in the two months since the passage of the new tax law while more than 55,000 American workers have been laid off, according to Senate Democrats.

One of Noble Group Ltd.’s largest shareholders has stepped up criticism of the embattled commodity trader, describing losses as “shocking” and warning the billions in red ink will pile more pressure on investors to agree to a controversial debt-for-equity rescue plan that it opposes.

U.S. companies including FedEx Corp. and Motorola Solutions Inc. are seizing an opportunity to borrow money and top up their pensions, before a tax benefit shrinks.

What does it take to get into the 1 percent? The price of admission is an adjusted gross income—basically, what you make before deductions—of $480,930.

Changes to the tax code may restrict growth in philanthropy to U.S. higher education to less than 6 percent this year, according to a report this week from Moody’s Investors Service.

I speak to a lot of CFOs who are bumping up against the constraints of spreadsheets for building and maintaining their annual budgets.