Estate taxes

The White House cited research from a “family business” group to support its push for repealing the federal estate tax. But don’t mistake family business owners for small business owners.

The Treasury aims to kill proposed Section 2704 rules

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got a swift rebuttal after he went on national television to claim a hypothetical Indiana family would save $1,000 under President Donald Trump’s tax plan.

The document provides more detail than a number of other tax reform documents that have emerged from the Administration over the past few months, but it still leaves many specifics to be worked out by Congress's tax-writing committees.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to fix problems with its examination of estate and gift tax returns, according to a new report.

Experts at Bloomberg BNA highlight the most important changes the Republican leaders’ nine-page proposal could lead to.

President Donald Trump kicked off his campaign to cut tax rates for corporations and individuals, casting the proposal as an economic jolt that would boost hiring across the country.

The tax reform plan released Wednesday by Republican leaders and the Trump administration is more focused on corporate taxes than individual taxes, experts say.

Republicans unveiled a framework for their long-awaited tax reform plan Wednesday, listing a series of tax cuts but with few details on how to raise revenue to pay for the cuts.

The president said this year’s deadly hurricanes add urgency to his tax-cut plan.

The president is planning an aggressive travel schedule, taking him to as many as 13 states over the next seven weeks.

President Donald Trump promoted a tax overhaul as essential to boosting economic growth as he huddled Tuesday at the White House with his advisers and the congressional leaders shepherding his push to overhaul the nation’s tax code.

President Donald Trump will once again tout tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses Wednesday—amid suggestions that high earners would benefit most.

Most Republicans support killing the estate tax as part of a tax overhaul, but doing so could have dire consequences for something else conservatives cherish—charitable giving.

As people begin to amass wealth, the clarity and simplicity of their financial lives can quickly diminish.

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A federal rule aimed at limiting corporate “earnings stripping’’ for tax-avoidance purposes may pose an undue burden on taxpayers and may be changed or rescinded, according to an Internal Revenue Service notice.

Estate planning has once again entered the realm of uncertainty.

Is the IRS’s Examination Estate Tax Lien Group watching 30-year-old film classics? Apparently they are.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a revenue procedure that offers an easier way to get an extension of time to file a return to opt for portability of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount.