Tax strategies

The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a point to 3.6%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, and two previous months' job gains were revised upward.

Manchin doomed two pieces of the plan — ending a tax break for fossil fuels and taxing unrealized capital gains — just hours after Biden announced them.

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would expand the tax benefits for retirement accounts to bolster the savings of Americans.

Biden’s 10-year outlook still would rack up $14.4 trillion in deficits — most of it on autopilot — even after accounting for that $1 trillion in net deficit cuts from new policies like tax increases on the wealthy and corporations.

President Joe Biden’s plan to tax unrealized capital gains ran into opposition from key Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, likely dooming it just hours after it was sent to Congress.

Tax proposals in the Biden administration’s budget include plans to raise the corporate tax rate to 28% and to tax the unrealized capital gains of “extremely wealthy” individuals.

They are the latest target of probes into whether Opportunity Zones are driving investment and job creation in low-income communities.

President Joe Biden made a fresh effort on Monday to persuade Congress to take steps to overhaul the tax code and squeeze more revenue from the largest companies and the wealthiest households.

The administration is calling for more than $2.5 trillion in tax hikes on wealthy and large corporations over a decade.

The request will show a $1 trillion reduction in deficit spending over the coming decade, generated in part by a new tax targeting billionaires.

The bull market has made many wealthy clients overweight in single stocks. Here’s what they can do to diversify their retirement nest eggs and cut taxes.

Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden is developing policies that could remove some tax benefits available to Russian and Belarusian individuals and entities that earn income from the U.S.

An omnibus spending bill released by congressional appropriators would reduce a budget increase for the Internal Revenue Service previously passed by the House by over half.

With more states allowing gaming, more taxpayers need to be aware of the tax rules around winnings.

The American Rescue Plan created some major changes to the dependent care tax breaks for 2021, and they will likely save your clients a considerable amount of money. Here’s a quick refresher.

A new bill would end the tax-exempt status for new sales of municipal bonds that finance professional sports stadiums.

Even though many of the legislation’s original elements, like providing free community college education, were removed, it’s still full of tax provisions.