Tag: Taxes

Changes include scaled-back standard deductions and some meant to make the plan less costly to the Treasury. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump overhauls tax plan, promising millions of new jobs

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2016 3:52 pm

A report also discovered that the IRS accidentally disclosed personal information in some responses. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

IRS mishandled 1 in 10 FOIA requests this year

Sarah Bedford · September 15, 2016 3:36 pm

"Because he's got a 12,000-page tax return that would create ... financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from (his father's) main message," Donald Trump Jr. told Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editors and reporters on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Donald Trump Jr.: Tax returns would ‘detract from main message’

Kelly Cohen · September 15, 2016 3:13 pm

Some of the ideas endorsed by the report are among the measures that members of Congress from both parties have weighed this summer. (AP Photo)

Report: Federal budget doesn’t respond to economy, world affairs or voters

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2016 4:01 am

Two Republican congressman formally offered a resolution to oust Koskinen on Tuesday — a largely symbolic gesture because the GOP would have no chance of winning the two-thirds majority required to convict him in the Senate. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

White House: IRS impeachment bill ‘entirely misplaced’

Susan Crabtree · September 14, 2016 7:53 pm

The American Beverage Association argued in its lawsuit that the new tax that goes into effect next year violates federal and state rules, according to a report in Philly.com. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Soda industry tries to kill Philly tax

Robert King · September 14, 2016 5:08 pm

Ivanka Trump, right, watches after her father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, delivered a policy speech on child care, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, in Aston, Penn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ivanka Trump: My father is an ‘equal opportunity offender’

Anna Giaritelli · September 14, 2016 2:26 am

Although the federal government doesn't directly subsidize stadium construction, it loses revenue when stadiums are financed with tax-exempt municipal bonds because the interest income that bond-buyers earn is tax-free at the federal level. Above, os are lightweight EFTE roof panels on July 16, 2015 at the construction site of the Minnesota Vikings NFL football stadium. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Beltway Confidential

Study: Taxpayers lose billions on federal stadium subsidies

Jason Russell · September 13, 2016 6:11 pm

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen "engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with his duties as an officer of the United States," Rep. John Fleming said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republicans move to impeach IRS chief

Susan Ferrechio, Joel Gehrke · September 13, 2016 4:36 pm

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Hillary Clinton's failure to disclose her health condition constitutes as lying. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Conway calls Clinton a liar, dodges on Trump’s medical history and tax returns

Mariana Barillas · September 13, 2016 3:41 pm

According to a House Democrat, Hillary Clinton needs to do a better job of reporting her health status to voters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House Dem: ‘If she sneezes, she needs to tell us whether it is a sneeze or an allergy’

Mariana Barillas · September 13, 2016 12:44 pm

LinkedIn co-founder says he’ll pay millions of dollars to see Trump’s tax returns

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2016 8:05 pm