President Donald Trump briskly overruled congressional Republicans and his own treasury secretary Wednesday to cut a deal with Democrats to keep the government operating and raise America's debt limit. The immediate goal was ensuring money for hurricane relief, but in the process the president ...
Iowa approved a deal Thursday to give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to build two data storage centers near Des Moines and the promise to create 50 jobs. The deal approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority includes a refund of ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government remains committed to a plan to complete the doubling of the consumption tax to 10 percent in 2019.
A major battle is brewing in Brussels over an EU reform plan that would force internet aggregators such as Google News to pay newspapers for displaying snippets of their articles online. Google is furious at the reform idea, but powerful publishers, including Axel Springer in ...
A reader writes to Lifelines about Japan's recently introduced inheritance tax law, which he calls "one of the most punitive in the world."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new goods and services tax is both messy and disruptive.
A government advisory panel Tuesday proposed excluding houses left to spouses of 20 years or longer by deceased partners from inheritance considerations when their estates are dispersed to heirs. The measure is expected to help surviving spouses financially by making sure they get more of ...
The government is considering collecting some of the revenue from casino operators mainly to finance measures to help prevent gambling addiction, sources said. The Diet enacted a law to legalize casinos in December amid ongoing public concerns over potential social ills, including surges in gambling ...
At a crowded New Delhi market plastered with posters announcing massive sales, shoppers were vacuuming up household gadgets and high-end electronics in the last days before India's new sales tax takes effect. The single, nationwide tax starting Saturday replaces a complicated mix of state and ...
The National Tax Agency unveils plans to use artificial intelligence to automate responses to taxpayer inquiries and consultations and also to select targets for investigation.
A key part of House Republicans' plan to overhaul the way corporations pay taxes is on life support, leaving lawmakers scrambling to save one of President Donald Trump's biggest priorities and increasing the chances the GOP will simply pass a tax cut instead of ...
Cut taxes to boost growth: Long before Donald Trump became president, Kansas conducted a real-world experiment with this formula in the hopes of reviving its economy. But today the Midwestern state is beating a hasty retreat after the demonstrable failure of the ideas that have ...
