Tax cuts

Top Republican tax writers went to a national shrine for tax cutters—former President Ronald Reagan’s California ranch—hoping to make a sales pitch for a historic overhaul of the U.S. tax code.

The reductions might not do all that much to help the economy in 2018.

The White House is reaching back to a past administration for a strategy to get tax reform passed.

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.

A group of 45 Senate Democrats has sent a letter to President Donald Trump and Republican Senate leaders calling for bipartisan talks on tax reform, but with three preconditions.

Congressional leaders and Trump administration officials have been meeting in secret to try to reach a united front for rewriting the U.S. tax code.

Only 4 percent of respondents to a new poll see taxes as the most important issue facing the country.

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

Discarding tax cuts gives the Senate leader $230 billion to hand out in sweeteners.

A Republican senator is building support to change budget rules in order to make temporary tax cuts last for two decades or more, but he has yet to convince a critical figure—House Speaker Paul Ryan.