Tax strategies

Blucora plans to combine HD Vest’s individual tax advisor focus with 1st Global’s institutional, multi-partner focus.

A pair of Republican and Democratic senators introduced bipartisan legislation to fix one of the technical problems in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The U.K. taxman is coming under fire over its program giving the wealthy one last opportunity to disclose income or assets stashed in secretive offshore accounts.

High-end real estate brokers in New York worry that foreign second-home buyers are feeling under assault from all sides and may end up going elsewhere.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island introduced a pair of bills aimed at stopping corporations from using offshore tax havens and outsourcing jobs to other countries.

Repeat tax debtors and their tax pros should use tax season to clear up past balances.

Bill Gates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all want the rich to pay more taxes, but Gates is saying what the Democratic candidates appear to be thinking: Go for the capital gains rate.

European Union finance ministers agreed to add 10 countries to a blacklist of alleged tax havens, including the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda, despite last-minute push-back by some EU nations.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie added momentum to the idea of taxing non-resident owners of multi-million dollar apartments as a way to help pay for billions of dollars of regional transit improvements.

What types of businesses don’t qualify for QOZ investment, and which types of taxpayers are best suited for the program?

National Football League veteran Ndamukong Suh has always mixed football with finance, considering things like state taxes when weighing where to play.

The European Union’s inability to agree on taxing Internet giants like Google and Amazon shows the need for majority voting at the soon-to-be 27-member bloc, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.

Watch out, Wall Street. Democrats, who have so far focused on plans to tax the super-rich, are turning their sights to capital markets.

New tax incentives might not be enough to convince Corporate America to expand its U.S. operations beyond what it was already planning.

Execs in a new BDO survey don’t see the economy staying strong beyond two years.

Before Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax, there was Donald Trump’s wealth tax.

The legislation would retroactively extend tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 and 2018 through the rest of 2019.

The program encourages the private sector to diversify their investment portfolio while revitalizing urban and rural districts that face economic challenges.

The e-commerce giant scrapped a deal this month to open offices in New York after clashing with local politicians and is backing out of another battle.

While wealthy people buying airplanes is nothing new, the tax overhaul provided a new incentive.