Tag: Taxes

Mercy Cabrera, an insurance agent with Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, speaks on the phone as she helps a person with information about an insurance policy under the Affordable Care Act at the store setup in the Westland Mall on November 14, 2013 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Taxpayers fork over $1.5 billion in Obamacare penalties

Robert King · July 21, 2015 6:46 pm

Paul released a humorous video on YouTube Tuesday detailing his plan to kill the tax code-"all 70,000 pages of it"-and replace it with his "Fair and Flat Tax" alternative. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Rand Paul literally ‘blows up the tax code’ in latest campaign ad

Gabby Morrongiello · July 21, 2015 6:13 pm

Five of the biggest and oldest tax breaks account for 51 percent of the cost, Sen. Orrin Hatch says. (AP file)

Senate panel advances $96 billion package of tax breaks

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2015 6:01 pm

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary ClintonÂ is going to expand on her economic agenda this week. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Clinton to propose higher tax rates on short-term investors

Ariel Cohen · July 20, 2015 9:22 pm

The IRS can crack down on you -- and try to keep your money -- if your deposits are of an amount it deems suspicious. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

The IRS steals money from businessmen for making deposits that are too small

Timothy P. Carney · July 20, 2015 6:25 pm

A worker sweeps a road near wind turbines at the Dafancheng Wind Power Plant, the largest of its kind in Aisa, on September 2, 2007 in Dafancheng of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Â (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Wind subsidy would be extended in Senate tax package

Zack Colman · July 17, 2015 4:52 pm

Hillary Unveils ‘Profit Sharing’ Tax Plan

Daniel Halper · July 16, 2015 7:46 pm

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Budget Director Shaun Donovan, left, and Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs David Agnew, speaks about a series of new actions being taken to support communities facing climate change during a meeting with state, local, and tribal leaders, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama administration lowers deficit estimate for 2015

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2015 8:36 pm

Transit workers participate in a rally to urge Congress to replenish the Highway Trust Fund. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

House chairmen look to tax compliance to fund highway spending through 2015

Joseph Lawler · July 14, 2015 12:40 pm

Taxing Cadillacs

Taxing Cadillacs

Geoffrey Norman · July 13, 2015 7:44 pm

Taxpayers Cough Up $48K for Hotels for President Clinton’s Paris Shopping Trip

Taxpayers Cough Up $48K for Hotels for President Clinton’s Paris Shopping Trip

Jeryl Bier · July 13, 2015 11:14 am

"We want to do a multi-year highway bill," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.Â Ryan on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Avoiding a tax hike: The challenge for reform

Joseph Lawler · July 11, 2015 4:01 am