Tax rates

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.

The administration views GOP attacks on its proposal to use corporate tax hikes to pay for a vast infrastructure program as a losing argument in the battle for public opinion.

Virtually all tax advisors have accepted the inevitability of taxes increasing. The only open questions seem to be when and how high.

The richest New York City residents could soon face the highest combined tax rates in the U.S.

The Treasury secretary outlined the case for a harmonized corporate tax rate across the world’s major economies.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will argue Monday for a global minimum tax rate for companies as she pushes President Joe Biden’s plans to raise levies on U.S. companies, a person familiar with her remarks said.

President Joe Biden laid out what he called a “bold” plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure, but now needs an equally ambitious effort to wrangle it through Congress in the face of Republican opposition and criticism from within his Democratic Party.

The infrastructure plan sets the stage for a drawn-out battle over his second big economic program.

More than a half century after Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, the new administration plans a mass expansion of government spending and a revamp of the Tax Code.

The Senate Budget Committee chairman wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 35 percent.

President Joe Biden’s economic team at the White House is determined to make good on his campaign pledge to raise taxes on the rich, emboldened by mounting data showing how well America’s wealthy did financially during the pandemic.