Tax strategies

The final Republican tax bill set for a House vote Tuesday would add $448 billion to federal deficits over 10 years with economic growth factored in, the right-of-center Tax Foundation said Monday.

President Donald Trump predicted the U.S. economy is “going to start to rock” when the Republican rewrite of the U.S. tax code is complete after a six-week sprint.

This week marks the last leg of Republicans’ push to revamp the U.S. tax code, with both the House and Senate planning to vote by Wednesday on final legislation before sending it to President Donald Trump.

The Republican tax bill that’s on the brink of passage would vault America’s corporate tax rate into a much more competitive position globally and deliver temporary tax cuts to a broad range of people.

Now that Republicans in Congress have released their final tax bill, two big questions remain. What will companies do with all that cash, and who will benefit the most?

Investors have dodged a rule change that could have raised their tax bills when they sell stock.

Half the public thinks they’ll pay higher taxes under the Republican overhaul making its way through Congress in a new Monmouth University poll, underscoring the difficulty the party faces in selling what would be President Donald Trump’s biggest legislative victory to date.

At the end of every year, millions of Americans can make strategic moves to shave a few bucks off their April tax bill. Right now, millions more should be able to get into the act, with Congressional Republicans poised to pass a 503-page law that fundamentally restructures the U.S. tax code.

The top tax rate that U.S. companies would pay on an estimated $3.1 trillion in earnings they’ve stockpiled overseas crept up to 15.5 percent in the final version of the GOP tax bill released Friday.

Ikea is the latest company ensnared in the European Union’s sprawling tax probes as regulators look at whether the retailer’s revenue deals in the Netherlands allowed it to avoid hundreds of millions of euros of taxes.

Assuming the GOP bill passes, it will still need to be implemented, and a technical corrections bill issued.

Last-minute changes to the Republican tax bill contain an unpleasant surprise for married couples who make between $600,000 and $1 million: They won’t be getting as big a tax cut as lawmakers planned earlier.

Amazon.com Inc. will pay 100 million euros ($118 million) to the Italian tax authorities for the period of 2011-2015 in a settlement that closes the fiscal probe by the country’s tax police, Italy’s Revenue Agency said in an emailed statement Friday.

Congressional leaders worked quickly to finalize compromise legislation for floor votes next week in an all-out effort to provide themselves and President Donald Trump with a major policy victory before the end of 2017. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

Some brokerage firms are concerned that the tax overhaul could lead to upheaval, pushing their employees to set up their own shops or switch firms to lower their tax bills.

President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that his tax cut is all about helping the middle class even as Republican leaders formed a last-minute plan to cut the top rate paid by million-dollar earners.

Details about the tax reform bill coming out of the conference committee may give tax pros what they need to begin advising clients.

After failing this year to repeal and replace Obamacare, House Republicans are angling to put taxes that are part of the health law on hold.

A provision to treat graduate school tuition waivers as taxable income won’t be in the final House-Senate tax package, according to Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana and one other person briefed on a tentative deal reached Wednesday.

While Congress irons out the differences between the tax bills proposed by the House and Senate, taxpayers have been living in limbo, and putting year-end tax planning on hold.