Tax regulations

The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries—a response to sustained criticism from big business and from members of Congress, who had asked that they be delayed and scaled back.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations on earnings stripping in an effort to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the Internal Revenue Service has released new rules and procedures for deducting disaster losses.

Warren Buffett just fact checked Donald Trump.

The details of Donald Trump’s taxes are a bit of a mystery, even with the unauthorized release of a single tax return from 1995. Still, the evidence suggests that the real-estate magnate and presidential candidate may have used a staggering loss of $916 million to avoid paying income taxes for many years afterward.

Donald Trump offered a new line of defense of his own tax problems Tuesday: blame Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump won’t release any new tax information in response to revelations that he claimed a massive tax loss in 1995 that potentially allowed him to eliminate his federal income-tax bill for almost two decades, according to two people familiar with the campaign’s thinking.

Donald Trump was facing renewed pressure to release his personal tax information after a New York Times report that he recorded a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return, a deduction that might have allowed him to cut his federal income tax for several ensuing years.

A group of advocacy organizations is urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to require multinational companies to disclose more information about their taxes.

The Tax Foundation has released its annual ranking of states and how competitive their business tax codes are.