Taxes

Not included among 75 tech company CEOs who signed a pledge to pay their "fair" share of taxes to support the Tech for Good initiative were Tim Cook of Apple and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com.

Paul Ausick

1 month ago

The Congressional Budget Office publishes each year a nonpartisan long-term projection of what it expects will be seen in federal deficits, debt, spending, and revenues. The annual report looks out...

Jon C. Ogg

3 months ago

Last Updated: 3 months ago

Three U.S. Senators have proposed a one-time tax on a handful of billionaires whose wealth greatly increased during the pandemic, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. The money would help fund...

Douglas A. McIntyre

5 months ago

Due to the spread of coronavirus, some current federal tax receipts of about $4 trillion a year will be pushed out a year from 2020 due to rescue plans.

Douglas A. McIntyre

9 months ago

Last Updated: 9 months ago

One of the biggest concerns in the financial markets at this time is that governments and central banks have few obvious policy tools to help keep their economies going if what was seen in China...

Jon C. Ogg

10 months ago

Last Updated: 10 months ago

Investors of Aurora Cannabis, like investors everywhere, are an impatient lot. Wall Street expects profits, and none of these marijuana companies is anywhere near profitability.

Paul Ausick

11 months ago

Last Updated: 11 months ago

About three-quarters of the Fortune 500 companies made a profit in 2018. Among those profitable companies, 91 paid no taxes at all and another 56 paid less than 5%. The statutory rate for corporate...

Paul Ausick

1 year ago

Last Updated: 1 year ago

SunPower has announced a joint venture with Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital that will preserve the federal investment tax credit for third-party owned commercial and residential...

Chris Lange

1 year ago

Last Updated: 11 months ago

The 2017 tax reform bill dramatically increased the number of Americans who claim the deduction for mortgage interest.

Paul Ausick

1 year ago

Last Updated: 1 year ago

Cutting the U.S. IRS budget by more than $13 billion in the first decade of the 21st century resulted in more than $34 billion in lost tax revenue.

Paul Ausick

1 year ago

Last Updated: 1 year ago

Three of the world's largest oil companies have adopted proposals to make them more responsive to and transparent regarding their impact on climate change. Don't expect any big changes.

Paul Ausick

1 year ago

Last Updated: 11 months ago