Tax breaks

Before President Donald Trump launched his latest call for major tax cuts, he took a moment to offer support to Texas and Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

President Donald Trump singled out several top officials who accompanied him for a speech on overhauling the tax code on Wednesday, but didn’t mention his chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who has led the administration’s efforts.

President Donald Trump warned Congress not to miss a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to boost the economy with a massive overhaul of the U.S. tax code as he kicked off his effort to sell the American public on his tax plan Wednesday at a manufacturing plant in Springfield, Missouri.

President Donald Trump will once again tout tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses Wednesday—amid suggestions that high earners would benefit most.

President Donald Trump is planning to kick off one of the most important sales pitches of his presidency this week—getting Americans fired up about rewriting the U.S. tax code.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that President Donald Trump may keep the carried interest tax break for firms that create jobs, while eliminating it for hedge fund managers.

As summer winds down, everyone across the country is anxiously awaiting a special and rare event this Monday.

Republicans struggling to pass a major tax overhaul that doesn’t add to the federal deficit are discussing a kind of compromise: mixing permanent revisions with temporary rate cuts for individuals and businesses.

Republican congressional leaders doubled down on their pledge to overhaul the U.S. tax code by the end of the year after party leaders abandoned a proposal to tax companies’ domestic sales and imports.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is proposing tax changes that would close loopholes often used by doctors and lawyers to reduce their tax burden, part of the Canadian government’s pledge to level the playing field for middle-income earners.

A group of Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced legislation to allow same-sex couples who were previously barred from filing taxes jointly to now submit amended returns dating back to the year of their marriage.

Some lawmakers threaten to vote against a deal unless it lays out the specific rate for corporations.

Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is asking for ideas, proposals and feedback on tax reform as efforts in Congress heat up on overhauling the federal tax code.

President Donald Trump won’t veto a tax bill even if it provides the wealthiest Americans with a tax cut, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Kate Barton, Americas vice chair of tax services for the Americas Tax practice at Ernst & Young, discusses the contrasting tax reform plans of House Republicans and President Trump, and what’s likely to be in the final bill.

U.S. exporters have been claiming the DISC or IC-DISC tax break for more than 45 years. Despite these facts, some enterprises fail to take advantage of the federal government’s tax giveaways for Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corporations. Here are 10 winning IC-DISC strategies an exporter can use.

A pledge not to give the wealthiest Americans an absolute tax cut is coming back to haunt Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The hearing on the proposed border-adjustment tax that has split corporate America for months is finally happening, but the measure may be further than ever from reality.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that any tax overhaul can’t add to the growing U.S. budget deficit, a position that places him at odds with President Donald Trump, who has called for a significant tax cut.

CPAs and their business clients and corporate tax departments need to consider different scenarios for the possible corporate tax reforms now being weighed in Congress.