Tag: Taxes

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin leads a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Treasury Department in Washington.

Treasury secretary: Trump’s middle-class tax cut on hold

Katelyn Caralle · December 19, 2018 1:53 am

The effort was announced at the closing of the Energy Department's first-ever Sustainable Transportation Summit and a report from the Environmental Protection Agency that reaffirmed regulations to drive more electric cars into the market, despite falling sales of the vehicles due to low gasoline prices. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Beltway Confidential

Bah humbug: Congress should take electric cars off their Christmas list

Ryan Ellis · December 18, 2018 1:30 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, arrives at his office in the Capitol as House Republicans prepare to advance the GOP tax bill, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017.

House GOP’s end-of-year tax bill gets biodiesel, railroad tax breaks tacked on

Colin Wilhelm · December 17, 2018 9:58 pm

President Donald Trump

Leading GOP pollster: Trump’s focus on immigration sunk House majority

David M. Drucker · December 17, 2018 8:13 pm

Portraits of President Donald Trump's parents Mary Anne MacLeod Trump and Fred Trump, far right, are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, during Trump's meeting to discuss potential damage from Hurricane Michael, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Trumps used rent-control laws to skirt taxes and build an empire

Philip Wegmann · December 17, 2018 5:13 pm

IRS takes to Instagram with piggy bank photos and savings tips

Claude Thompson · December 16, 2018 12:02 am

Marketplace guide Jim Prim works on the Healthcare.gov federal enrollment website as he helps a resident sign up for a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act at an enrollment event in Milford, Delaware, U.S., on Thursday, March 27, 2014.

Federal judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional

Kimberly Leonard · December 15, 2018 1:19 am

Pelosi says obtaining Trump’s tax returns will be ‘challenging’

Colin Wilhelm · December 13, 2018 5:09 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, steward of the GOP tax bill, speaks before the final version of the legislation is signed.

Kevin Brady proposes to drain the swamp by ending the corrupt ‘tax extenders’

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2018 12:10 am

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson steps off Air Force One with President Donald Trump as they arrive Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, in Reno, Nev.

Trump to create council to manage tax-break ‘opportunity zones’ and have Ben Carson lead it

Colin Wilhelm · December 12, 2018 3:21 pm

In this photo taken Nov. 13, 2018, bicycle mechanic Boo Scott, left, explains a bike component to assembler Alan Everitt in the bike repair department in REI Co-op's flagship store in Seattle. For the fourth consecutive year, REI said that on the popular Black Friday shopping day it will close all 153 stores, process no online payments and pay more than 12,000 employees, encouraging them to recreate outdoors with friends and family. The company calls it #OptOutside.

Want to help US businesses suffering from tariffs? Cut the de minimis threshold

Pat Cunnane · December 12, 2018 2:33 pm

In this Oct. 30, 2018, file photo, Ivanka Trump departs Air Force One with her husband Jared Kushner in Coraopolis, Pa.

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner could benefit from tax breaks they helped establish

Katelyn Caralle · December 12, 2018 1:38 am