
Laura Davison
Capitol Hill tax reporterLaura Davison is a Capitol Hill tax reporter at Bloomberg News

Laura Davison is a Capitol Hill tax reporter at Bloomberg News
A Senate plan to spend $550 billion on U.S. infrastructure stands to benefit industries heavily dependent on transportation.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill would end a tax break Congress crafted to help businesses struggling during the pandemic but relatively few companies have claimed.
The Justice Department directed the Treasury Department to hand over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress, a move that means six years of Trump’s personal and business financial information could become public.
A Senate proposal to ramp up IRS surveillance over cryptocurrency transactions claims it will $28 billion in tax revenue.
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams told a group of House lawmakers that the limit on the state and local tax deduction is harming the city.
The Senate’s bipartisan deal would impose stricter rules on cryptocurrency investors to fund a portion of the $550 billion investment.
U.S. lawmakers are wary of passing any legislation until they have strong assurances that other countries will also change their laws.
Democrats may include at least a partial expansion of the state and local income tax deduction in the $3.5 trillion budget outline that Senate Democrats agreed upon this week.
Senate Democrats on the Budget Committee agreed to set a $3.5 trillion top-line spending level for a bill to carry most of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda into law without Republican support, bridging divisions — for now — among some party factions.
Financial-services companies are set to be exempt from a global plan to make multinational firms pay more tax to the countries where they operate, in a win for U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.
The private equity industry is trying defend a cherished tax break that Democrats have targeted for elimination.
A rare show of bipartisan unity unfolded Tuesday, with 18 lawmakers making the case for an expansion of the state and local tax deduction.
The service is gearing up for a potentially massive tax-enforcement push if Congress passes a plan including $40 billion to expand audits on the wealthy.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is proposing to partially revive the federal deduction for state and local taxes in an draft outline of a budget resolution designed to fast-track much of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.
The Treasury secretary suggested that if Congress were to pass a capital-gains tax hike effective starting in April 2021, that wouldn’t count as a retroactive increase.
Representative Tom Suozzi, one of the leaders in Congress behind the push for an expansion of the state and local tax deduction, is considering proposing a one-time wealth tax on the richest Americans.
The disclosure of the personal income and tax data of some of the wealthiest Americans has been referred to additional federal investigators.
Mitt Romney is helping lead lawmakers in creating a new proposal to present to the Biden administration.
The leaders of the biggest Western economies are expected to endorse a plan that focuses on super-wealthy individuals and businesses.
The proposal sets aside the Biden administration’s proposal to raise the headline corporate income rate to 28% from 21% — a non-starter for Republican lawmakers — though that could be pursued elsewhere.