Tax breaks

Talks continued on issues like a fix to the new tax law with just days remaining for House and Senate votes to avert a third shutdown this year.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it’s ready to process tax year 2017 returns claiming four additional tax benefits recently renewed retroactively into law, including tax breaks related to energy conservation and production.

The Internal Revenue Service is prepared to handle three popular provisions that had expired for 2017 but were recently given new life by Congress.

President Donald Trump’s tax law could make divorce an even more miserable experience, according to a new survey of the nation’s top matrimonial attorneys.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Internal Revenue Service will issue guidance within the next two weeks to prevent hedge-fund managers from dodging new tax rules on carried-interest profits.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving homeowners whose homes were damaged by deteriorating concrete foundations more time on a safe harbor it issued last year.

President Trump just signed and enacted a two-year budget bill that extends government funding through March 23 and also retroactively extends numerous tax breaks that had previously expired.

The bipartisan budget deal signed into law Friday by President Trump contains 36 tax extenders that had expired at the end of 2016 and makes them retroactive to 2017.

Tucked inside the bipartisan budget deal are a slew of tax breaks for NASCAR, Hollywood, racehorses and rum. And beer, too.

Businesses—especially smaller firms—may scale back on treating clients to major league baseball games, golf outings and the like after Congress and President Donald Trump ended a tax break for such entertainment.

A split inside the White House helped preserve a loophole that benefits investment fund managers in the tax bill that’s headed for President Donald Trump’s desk—despite Trump’s campaign promise to abolish it.

The Republican tax bill that’s on the brink of passage would vault America’s corporate tax rate into a much more competitive position globally and deliver temporary tax cuts to a broad range of people.

A provision to treat graduate school tuition waivers as taxable income won’t be in the final House-Senate tax package, according to Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana and one other person briefed on a tentative deal reached Wednesday.

Traditional cost accounting for mixed-use residential projects often does not properly allocate all construction costs to each section of the property.

Doing away with advance refundings would eliminate a crucial tool that’s saved governments tens of billions since interest rates tumbled after last decade’s recession.

A new revenue procedure provides a safe harbor allowing taxpayers to deduct costs for fixing deteriorating foundations.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has spent much of his political career warning against the pitfalls of deficit spending and government debt.

Lawmakers who sped a bill through the U.S. House last week may have handed a few more goodies to Wall Street’s wealthiest than they realize.

As the Republican-controlled Congress tries to push through tax reform this year, one group of Americans may question why it’s coming up a scoop short.

Senate Republicans say their tax bill will bring big tax cuts for middle-class families and businesses. If you own a private jet, you’ll also get a break.