Tax

The White House supports tweaking final tax legislation to appease lawmakers who want to let constituents deduct state income taxes, according to National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

The three biggest stories in Washington—a broad overhaul of the U.S. tax structure, a health-care makeover and a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown—all depend, more or less, on one moderate Republican senator who says she’s got a deal that could deliver them all.

Like mother, like daughter; a rep for refunds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The service will pay 4 percent for over- and underpayments by individual taxpayers.

Despite claims to the contrary, the cuts proposed by the GOP aren’t even the biggest in the past five years.

House and Senate Republicans are working this week on compromise tax-overhaul legislation in an effort to send it to President Donald Trump by the end of the year.

Use this time of year to do some casual research.

For Carl J. Marinello II, the omnibus clause, or “uber” clause, in Code section 7212(a) had the effect of turning his failures to file tax returns over a period of years from misdemeanors into a felony.

Making money in the stock market could get more expensive.

Brooke Harrington, an American tax expert with a PhD from Harvard University, was about to make Copenhagen her home when she found out she was facing criminal charges.