Tax rates

Uncertainty around coming tax changes and the coronavirus pandemic are making it harder for tax pros to plan.

Finance ministers are due to begin meeting this week to home in on an accord that might feature both a minimum rate and encompass digital giants.

Signs are mounting that anxiety among congressional Democrats will significantly temper any increases that manage to pass Congress.

'It doesn't have to be exactly' 28 percent, the president said, in a signal that a final package could well have a lower rate.

With the tax recognition deadline of Dec. 31, 2026, still in place, taxpayers who wish to invest unrecognized gains in QOZs need to do so prior to Dec. 31, 2021, in order to obtain any step-up in basis benefit.

The president's promise to start narrowing income and wealth gaps underpins every part of his economic program.

The proposed top 39.6 percent tax bracket in the administration's “American Families Plan” would encompass less than 1 percent of taxpayers.

The president is on the road to sell his plans to build infrastructure and invest in education, child care and other priorities.

The proposal won’t affect couples with incomes below $400,000 — but could impact couples who together exceed that threshold.

The president declared the U.S. has turned the corner on a pandemic that’s killed more than half a million Americans.

The president called for higher taxes on the rich to fund a massive investment in the nation’s social safety net.

The sweeping $1.8 trillion plan would be funded in part by the largest tax increases on wealthy Americans in decades.

President Joe Biden’s coming tax package will feature an end to a major benefit for wealthy estates that drastically minimizes the levy for inheritors, along with a bump up in the top income tax rate and funding for strengthened IRS auditing, according to a person familiar with his proposal.

An inside look at the Biden's administration's proposals for paying for its infrastructure plans.

The president is poised to unveil a plan that would raise taxes on the income, investments and estates of the wealthiest Americans to levels not seen in more than four decades.

The White House plans to propose almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for those earning $1 million or more, to 39.6 percent.

His plan includes a proposal to almost double the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to help pay for a raft of social spending, according to people familiar with it.

President Joe Biden is asking congressional Democrats to vote for a tax increase that will test a long-held liberal article of faith: that many wealthy Democrats won’t mind paying more in taxes if they can be convinced the money would lead to greater prosperity for everyone.

A surprise U.S. drive to overhaul international corporate taxation promises a new era for governments to capture a bigger tax take from some of the most successful global businesses — if only the rest of the world can agree.

The trend toward increasing FUSF rates has been on a steady march upward for years.