Tax

The president has decided against making an end-run around Congress to cut the tax on capital gains by indexing gains to inflation.

The presidential candidate released a plan Thursday to expand Social Security benefits by $200 per month with a payroll tax increase on incomes above $250,000.

The senator is taking a slightly different approach to targeting the same non-wage income as proposals from Democratic presidential hopefuls.

Practitioners share how — and why — they help clients handle issues with tax authorities.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to audit corporate mergers and acquisitions and is wasting tens of thousands of days on cases that aren’t likely to generate more tax dollars.

The president is scheduled to meet with economic advisers Wednesday to discuss the possibility of cutting the tax on capital gains by indexing gains to inflation.

Preparer penalties; busted Congress; new NTA on passport certification; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to have a better strategy for determining the tax compliance or noncompliance of corporations that do mergers and acquisitions, according to a new report.

Tax laws tend to be boring, so sometimes it is easier to understand something if you know the reasoning behind it.

German authorities continued their investigations into multiple global lenders.