Taxation

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Flint officials including the state-appointed emergency manger want the Legislature to approve an income tax increase in the city to help stabilize city finances as property values decline. Emergency manager Ed Kurtz tells The...

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged "targeting" of conservative political groups by the IRS. Mr. Obama declared, "Americans are right to be angry...

Re "Scandal born of vague IRS laws," News Analysis, May 17, and "Ousted IRS chief defends agency," May 18 The outcry against the IRS over its targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status is justifiable. The IRS has two obligations when...

WASHINGTON — Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS would probably end up showing that the agency targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, the White House spokesman conceded Monday, contrary to...

The amount of publicity given the actions of the IRS is proportionate to the principle of non-discrimination that should apply to a government agency. The fact that the tea party and patriot parties are highly visible could have made the IRS focus on...

By Patrick Temple-West and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) - Using an unusual global tax structure, Apple Inc has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government, a U.S....

Maryland's counties and Baltimore face a collective loss of more than $40 million a year and some taxpayers could get refunds if a decision by the state's highest court isn't reversed on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state Court of Appeals ruled...

When Del. Andrew A. Serafini, R-Washington, introduced a bill during the 2013 session of the Maryland General Assembly seeking to reduce the state’s corporate income tax from 8.25 percent to 4 percent, he suggested that his bill might be a way to...

Like most people, I was originally horrified by the reported targeting of tea party groups ("IRS head forced to go," May 16). I am now less horrified. It is reported that various tea party groups were requesting tax exempt status as a "social welfare"...

Has the administration gone completely off the rails in Washington? I write here of the IRS taking aim for "extra scrutiny" of tax-exempt status requests from Tea Party and Patriot groups and the outrageous Justice Department subpoena of telephone...

IRS probe ignored most influential groups KEN THOMAS,Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra...