Taxation

 Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley plans to announce Tuesday that he's forming an exploratory committee as he weighs a Democratic primary challenge to Gov. Pat Quinn. The move allows Daley to start raising money and not let the summer slip...

The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...

Connecticut's constitutional spending cap is a study in inadvertent consequences. Its flaws are congenital. It was born of the longest, nastiest fight in Connecticut political history, the battle over the state income tax in 1991. It was written hurriedly...

To all you who live in places where there is a community development district — other than The Villages — here's a word of advice: Chill out, dudes. Crank up the Jimmy Buffett. A ruling by the IRS saying that the Village Center Community...

State lawmakers recently voted to hit the pause button on tax credits for the movie industry, but a quirk in the legislation could allow one company to get its cameras rolling with taxpayers' support The nearly 6-year-old tax credit program, meant to...

Every hardworking taxpayer should ponder this: The IRS is only one of over 1,300 agencies within the federal government ("IRS manager claims he started extra scrutiny," June 10). If the IRS could spend over $50 million on "conferences" between 2010 and...

The contradictions at the heart of the Obama presidency are finally out in the open. As a result, a man who came into office hellbent on restoring faith in government is on the verge of inspiring a libertarian revival. There have always been (at least)...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – If you live or work in Benton Harbor you could be paying more in taxes if a proposed city income tax is approved. The council is just studying the idea right now, according to Benton Harbor Mayor James Hightower. On...

Older consumers are no more vulnerable to identity theft than others, but they do tend to be victims of the types of ID theft that are on the rise — cases involving tax returns and medical care. For that reason, the Federal Trade Commission held a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the...

Two South Florida men were ordered held without bond Monday after federal authorities said they have substantial evidence to link them to millions of dollars in income tax fraud and identity theft. Geto Dorlizier, 34, and Jourmel Thomas, 47, were...

Ever since an IRS official revealed last month that the agency had singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny when evaluating applications for tax-exempt status, there has been speculation about whether the White House was involved. IRS officals...