Tax cuts

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.

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.

The push to change congressional budget rules and enact tax cuts for longer than 10 years even if they add to the deficit received more support Thursday as the top Senate tax writer endorsed it.

The top Democrat on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee said a bipartisan tax deal is impossible if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin can’t commit to an overhaul that avoids giving the highest-earning Americans a tax cut.

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.

Paul Ryan’s tenure as House speaker will be judged in part on whether he can deliver a Republican tax plan. But rather than spearhead the effort to reach consensus, Ryan is still clinging to his own widely rejected proposal.

House Republicans are growing frustrated with the lack of any details about the Trump administration’s tax plan, as the slow pace leaves lawmakers in limbo in their negotiations over how to deliver on long promised tax cuts.

Congressional Democrats might abandon their calls for raising the nation’s debt limit without any conditions, with House and Senate party leaders now discussing whether to use their leverage to try to prevent Republicans from enacting tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

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

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he agrees that his proposal for a border-adjusted tax needs to be changed if it’s to pass Congress, but he said he’s not giving up on the idea.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he can’t guarantee that the White House’s goal of no tax cuts for the wealthiest earners will survive the legislative debate.

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.

The president's plan would dramatically reduce the government’s role in society, but relies on a sweeping tax overhaul package that may not happen.

After months of uncertainty about a border-adjusted tax, retail CEOs are renewing efforts to quash the idea.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has taken pains to stress that the Trump administration isn’t out to kill Americans’ beloved mortgage-interest tax deduction—but a side effect of the plan could turn it into a perk for only the wealthy.

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.