Tax

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could have cut her 2015 federal tax bill roughly in half—lopping about $1.7 million from what she owed—under the plan offered by Republican rival Donald Trump.

A total of 37 states provide full exemptions from sales and use taxes on manufacturing equipment and machinery, but for the rest of the states, the rules can be different.

The average rate for sales taxes across the U.S. increased a bit in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting said Monday the Internal Revenue Service has selected it for the 12th year in a row to provide sales tax rate and taxability tables for taxpayers.

Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee for vice president, said Saturday that Donald Trump won’t make public his tax returns because they may show the Republican presidential candidate hasn’t been the generous charitable giver he claims to be.

A selection of our favorite recent fraud cases.

Donald Trump’s revamped tax plan stands in stark contrast to his rival Hillary Clinton’s plan, although many of the differences go back to the traditional split between the Republican and Democratic approaches to tax reform.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, earned adjusted gross income of $10.6 million in 2015 and paid $3.6 million in federal income taxes, according to a tax return her campaign released Friday as it sought to draw a contrast with her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, failed in an effort to recover approximately 1 million pounds on his tax refund from the United Kingdom, showing that Expelliarmus spells don’t work with the U.K. tax authorities.

Donald Trump’s campaign is preparing to tweak one of his boldest tax proposals out of concern that it might lead some high-income earners to try “to scam the system,” one of the Republican presidential nominee’s economic advisers said.