Tag: Treasury Department

In this Jan. 14, 2017, file photo, tax preparation firm owner Alicia Utley reaches for hard copies of tax forms in her offices at Infinite Tax Solutions, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Beltway Confidential

Not just Mr. Moneybags: Ending the capital gains inflation tax helps ordinary Americans too

Ryan Ellis · August 8, 2018 4:57 pm

Paul Manafort departs Federal District Court for a hearing on April 19, 2018, in Washington.

Tax preparer says Manafort claimed to have no foreign bank accounts

Melissa Quinn · August 3, 2018 3:43 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies on the FY2019 budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 in Washington.

US sanctions Russian bank, North Koreans for ‘illicit financial activity’

Joe Williams · August 3, 2018 3:26 pm

Tax Cut By Fiat

The Editors · August 2, 2018 1:25 pm

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech to MPs at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey.

Turkey: ‘Aggressive’ US sanctions over pastor will be returned in kind ‘without delay’

Naomi Lim · August 1, 2018 9:16 pm

Justin Muzinich, U.S. deputy Treasury secretary nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Muzinich, a former Morgan Stanley banker and adviser to Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign who joined Steven Mnuchin's team in March as a counselor, helped craft the administration's tax-cut plan, a signature achievement of the president.

Senate advances Trump’s nominee for top Treasury position, who now faces hold over Russia

Joseph Lawler · August 1, 2018 4:51 pm

President Trump sits with Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on July 25, 2018.

White House claims ‘great interest’ in unilateral tax cut on capital gains

Joseph Lawler · July 31, 2018 10:43 pm

Treasury recommends rescinding federal payday lending rules

Joseph Lawler · July 31, 2018 2:46 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, a sticker reading "Toxic" on containers carrying Syria's dangerous chemical weapons, on the Danish cargo ship, Ark Futura, transporting the chemical weapons out of the strife-torn country, in Cyprus coastal waters. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons director general Ahmet Uzumcu said Monday, June 23, 2014, the final shipment of stockpiled chemical weapons has been loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships for transportation out of Syria.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Treasury: Massachusetts smugglers helped Assad’s chemical weapons program

Joel Gehrke · July 25, 2018 2:45 pm

The exterior of the IRS building in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2013.

Beltway Confidential

The IRS gives up power for once, and the Left goes nuts

Bradley A. Smith · July 23, 2018 8:24 pm

In this photo taken on April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia. Butina, a 29-year-old gun-rights activist, served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged Monday, July 16, 2018.

National Security

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina met with US officials during the Obama administration: Report

Josh Siegel · July 22, 2018 5:37 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Mnuchin floats taking Russian aluminum company off sanctions list

Christian Datoc · July 21, 2018 2:11 pm