Tag: Taxes

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says Democrats won't even consider working with President Trump on tax reform unless the president releases his tax returns. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Why Trump must pass tax reform, despite Chuck Schumer’s obstruction

Ford O'Connell · April 21, 2017 5:44 pm

President Trump will sign an executive order requiring the agency to review tax rules that impose burdens on taxpayers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama anti-inversion rules at stake in new Trump executive order

Joseph Lawler · April 21, 2017 4:30 pm

Trump administration assumes that lowering tax rates and simplifying the code will accelerate economic growth. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Steven Mnuchin: Tax reform plan coming ‘very soon,’ will ‘pay for itself’

Joseph Lawler · April 20, 2017 6:12 pm

President Trump's former campaign tax advisers want him to focus on a quick reform that would lower the corporate tax rate. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump campaign tax advisers tell him to drop overall reform, pass quick corporate tax cut

Joseph Lawler · April 19, 2017 2:21 pm

Macro shot of a W2 income tax form

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The phantom income tax

Eric Peters · April 19, 2017 4:01 am

Tax reform is the perfect opportunity for Congress and Trump to show the America they were listening. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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This Tax Day, Congress and Trump should remember their campaign promises

Akash Chougule · April 19, 2017 1:30 am

Boeing, Americans for Affordable Products says, has received $64.42 billion in "loans and bailouts" from the government since 1992. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

Boeing’s Export-Import Bank subsidies targeted in battle over House tax plan

Joseph Lawler · April 18, 2017 4:08 pm

The Tax Revolution Institute, a nonprofit advocating for a simpler and "voluntary" tax system, organized the protest and hopes members of the public will stop by their setup, complete with plush recliners, and help them read as much of the tax code as they can before sundown. (Victor I. Nava/Washington Examiner)

Group protests Tax Day by reading US tax code outside IRS building

Victor I. Nava · April 18, 2017 3:29 pm

Warren and 10 others announced that they would introduce the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2017, which would allow the IRS to provide free online filing software. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Warren, Democrats target TurboTax on tax day

Joseph Lawler · April 18, 2017 3:18 pm

Republicans have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enact substantive change on taxes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Tax Day conundrum: Squishy centrist and liberal Republicans might torpedo tax reform

Noah Wall · April 18, 2017 2:09 pm

The two richest counties in America, and five of the seven richest, are in commuting distance of D.C. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

What makes Washington wealthy

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2017 4:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nancy Pelosi: Trump is ‘desperate to keep Americans in the dark’ on his taxes

Sean Langille · April 17, 2017 10:45 pm