Tax

A donor has asked the IRS to open a fraud investigation into a nonprofit that builds schools in Africa, and for Canada’s federal police to seize its records.

New York lawmakers could take on a politically weakened governor to push their own budget agenda, including a more progressive tax policy targeting the ultra-wealthy.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is probing whether executives at four drug industry companies plan to use a pandemic-related tax break to deduct opioid settlement payments.

The legal battle over House Democrats’ efforts to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns may turn on whether a former president can still assert constitutional protections against congressional requests.

In Touch and in jail; end of the ride; took a powder; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Senate enters the final stages of debating President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill on Thursday, with passage in the chamber likely pushed off until the weekend.

In a court filing Wednesday, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department said they were still weighing how to respond to a subpoena by House Democrats.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen added an international tax policy expert to her staff as the U.S. reverses a Trump-era stance over digital taxation of technology companies.

Thomas Sandell and Sandell Asset Management are paying $105 million to New York, the biggest fine of its kind in the state.

Senator Elizabeth Warren said IRS funding should be bolstered so the richest Americans get audited about once every three years as part of her proposed 2 percent annual tax on wealth in excess of $50 million.