Tax Strategies

Republican leaders in Congress and the Trump administration released a joint statement Thursday on their progress on tax reform ahead of Congress’s August recess and the broad principles they plan to follow.

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s plan to raise the top income-tax rate for America’s highest earners could find some support among congressional Republicans as part of a populist message to sell a broader tax overhaul, according to one conservative lawmaker who has heard the proposal.

Congressional leaders and Trump administration officials have been meeting in secret to try to reach a united front for rewriting the U.S. tax code.

The head of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents Internal Revenue Service employees, is asking Congress not to cut the IRS budget again.

The sweeping changes the Trump administration hopes to make to individual taxes will likely be a long time coming, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s municipal research strategy team led by Philip Fischer writes in a report.

The Tax Court has denied a claimed charitable deduction of $33,019,000 by RERI Holdings, whose principal investor is Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross.

The Senate bill reduces the deficit by $420 billion, the CBO said, compared with the $321 billion in deficit reduction in an earlier version, giving Republican leaders additional money they can use to court holdout votes. Much of the increased funding comes from a decision to no longer cut taxes on the wealthy.

A former Credit Suisse Group AG banker who pleaded guilty to conspiring to help Americans hide income and assets from the Internal Revenue Service is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in a bid for the sort of leniency her former colleagues received.

Retailers are hoping to entice back-to-school shoppers this summer.

A group of 16 House Democrats has sent a letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board asking it to require multinational companies to disclose more country-by-country reporting information in their public financial statements about where they pay taxes and book profits.