Finance, investment and tax-related legislation

The GREEN Act aims to deal with climate change by offering a range of tax incentives for use of renewable energy.

Democratic representatives are working on legislation that would nearly double the top individual U.S. tax rate on the highest incomes.

The bill would raise the federal corporate income tax rate on companies that pay their CEO more than 50 times as much as their average employee.

Three senators have reintroduced a bill that would exempt small broker-dealers from the expanded audit requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and reinstate looser auditing requirements.

With two of the leading presidential candidates competing to promote sweeping tax hikes on the ultra-wealthy, two other Democrats are advancing a more modest surtax on high incomes that supporters say has a better chance of actually becoming law.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants to create two new tax incentives to help small businesses owned by women to hire and grow and get access to capital.

Big-time college athletes could find themselves with a tax bill after a rule change that will allow student players to accept endorsement deals, according to Republican Senator Richard Burr.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., introduced legislation Friday modeled after the estate tax bill sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

The House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would tax e-cigarettes, such as vaping devices, the same as tobacco products.

The Senate rejected a Democratic proposal that sought to give states leeway to help residents avoid the $10,000 limit on deductions for state and local tax payments.

The bill that would force anonymous shell companies to disclose their actual ownership.

With just a few months left, some ideas have more chance of passing than others.

The legislation would create a whistleblower program similar to the one at the SEC, offering protection to accountants and auditors, and others who know of accounting fraud.

The senator is taking a slightly different approach to targeting the same non-wage income as proposals from Democratic presidential hopefuls.

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee issued three summary reports from their internal task forces examining what to do about the perennial problem of temporary tax breaks that need to be extended every few years.

The legislation would remove language like “husband” and “wife” from the tax code to accommodate same-sex couples and let them claim pre-2013 tax refunds.

The House voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax Wednesday intended to fund the Affordable Care Act, preserving tax breaks for employer-sponsored insurance plans favored by large corporations.

Lawmakers overcame objections from Sen. Rand Paul who had held up the treaties over fears that they could jeopardize U.S. taxpayers’ privacy.

New tax legislation is passing through Congress aimed at addressing several retirement issues.

For the accountant who is filing a Form 5500 for a self-employed individual, it may be the job of the accountant to report beneficiary information.