Tax

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice extending the relief it provided last year to residents who evacuated or couldn’t return because of the damage caused by the monster storms.

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed legislation in the House and Senate to ensure multinational companies pay the same tax rate on profits earned abroad as they do in the U.S., to counter some of the effects they claim from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Republicans passed last December.

The new tax law is anticipated to have a big impact on mergers and acquisitions, according to a new survey by Deloitte.

GRTs are being considered across the country as an improvement on state corporate income taxes -- but they come with serious issues.

Tax professionals are looking to the IRS for guidance on the new Section 199A.

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning to release tax refunds for taxpayers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit after subjecting their tax returns to some extra scrutiny.

Israel put proposed taxes on church-owned property in Jerusalem on hold after top Christian clerics in the city closed the venerated Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest the planned levies.

U.S. consumer confidence jumped to a 17-year high as optimism about employment prospects grew and Americans began seeing additional money in their paychecks from recently enacted tax cuts, data from the New York-based Conference Board showed Tuesday.

New Jersey took the first step toward allowing residents with the nation’s highest property taxes to circumvent a new federal limit on state and local tax deductions.