Tax

Scandal-scarred health care provider HealthSouth scored $440 million in a tax recovery from the Internal Revenue Service despite the company's acknowledgment of financial fraud.

The House of Representatives has approved a bill that would ban private tax collections, but the bill's prospects remain uncertain in the Senate.

Ernst & Young has been named by a law firm that has filed a submission with the Internal Revenue Service's Whistleblower Office, claiming that one of the accounting firm's Fortune 500 clients improperly reduced its taxes by $1 billion through a series of transactions.

The Internal Revenue Service is not doing a good job of managing its paper case files, according to a newly released report.

A high-ranking Treasury Department official has warned of the costs of tax-exempt bond financing for projects such as sports stadiums.

Republican presidential candidates debated their tax-lowering credentials at an event sponsored by CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday evening.

The Internal Revenue Service has given businesses a simpler process for requesting relief for late elections.

The KPMG tax shelter case got underway with jury selection and a drastically reduced set of defendants.

The push to raise taxes on hedge funds, private equity firms and their managers seems to have stalled for this year in Congress.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service has ousted chairman and chief executive Michael Lister after more than 125 of the company's franchises faced charges of fraudulent tax return preparation.