Tax reform

One of the last-minute, late-night changes Senate Republicans made to their tax-overhaul plan may mean higher taxes for corporations, including technology firms, than the bill’s drafters intended, experts say.

House and Senate lawmakers are poised to begin working as soon as Monday on compromise tax-overhaul legislation—a key step in their drive to send a bill with tax cuts for corporations and individuals to President Donald Trump by the end of the year. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

Republican senators defended the late-night, early-morning debate and vote that produced their sweeping revisions to the U.S. tax code, after criticism from Democrats that the bill’s final version incorporated multibillion-dollar changes made with little discussion.

House and Senate lawmakers say they’ll begin working Monday on compromise tax-overhaul legislation—just a couple days after President Donald Trump introduced uncertainty over a provision that could mean a difference of about $200 billion over 10 years.

President Donald Trump, fresh off a Senate vote that puts him a step closer to passing a tax-cut bill by year-end, declared himself “unbeatable” for re-election—and unexpectedly suggested a critical element of the Congressional tax plan is open to debate.

As Congress prepares to combine the House and Senate bills, these changes to the code look highly likely to be part of the final legislation.

Expiring tax cuts, business perks and health care politics loom over House and Senate Republicans as they face the daunting task of hammering out the differences between their competing bills to rewrite the U.S. tax code.

The tax-reform proposal moving through the U.S. Senate would hobble—and potentially cripple—the supply of tax-equity investment, an esoteric but critical source of clean-energy finance.

The last-minute Republican additions to the Senate tax bill include one apparently designed to appease mortgage lenders who worried that the legislation could cost them billions of dollars and drive some small firms out of the business.

The Republican chase for a rare political and policy win with passage of their tax plan has thinned the ranks of the party’s deficit hawks.

It just might be Ted Cruz’s biggest victory as a senator: Helping stop in its tracks a plan late Thursday night to add $350 billion in tax increases to the Senate’s tax bill to placate fellow Republican Senator Bob Corker’s worries about the deficit.

A provision in the tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would only intensify the housing crunch in the nation’s fourth-largest city—and others across the U.S.—by crippling affordable housing construction.

As the tax debate hits its latest crescendo in Washington, TV ads trying to influence the biggest rewrite of the code in three decades have increasingly targeted states with wavering Republicans, including Wisconsin and Maine.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is examining whether political considerations interfered with Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s promised analysis of the Republican tax proposal.

The Senate held a round of marathon votes Friday and ultimately passed the bill overnight. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

As if the Republican tax reform plan wasn’t bad enough already for taxpayers, the latest scheme to win over more votes of a precarious Senate majority involves adding a “trigger” to raise certain taxes if there isn’t enough economic growth to cover the $1.4 trillion cost of the bill, though the Senate's parliamentarian appears to have just shot down that proposal.

A push by some Republican senators to ward off future deficits by tucking a potential corporate tax increase into their tax-overhaul bill would set up a kind of economic booby trap—putting the GOP’s much-desired growth at risk, according to a half-dozen economists, lobbyists and tax experts.

The tax reform bills passed by the House, and soon to be passed by the Senate, have many similarities. And you can count on measures that are the same in both bills to end up in the final version to be signed by the President.

In the rush to borrow before the Republican tax bill reshapes the debt market, states and municipalities are paying up. The biggest spree of debt issuance in more than a decade has pushed up borrowing costs and eroded returns in the $3.8 trillion municipal-debt market.

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank would welcome and support a faster expansion of the economy stemming from changes in the tax code, provided it was the right kind of growth.