Taxes

The U.S. and Switzerland have signed a pact to crack down on tax evaders by making Swiss banks reveal more information about offshore accounts held by Americans, the Treasury Department said Thursday.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich's new tax overhaul plan, which includes expanding sales taxes to services like tax preparation, accounting and legal services, would also apply sales taxes to newspapers.

Two North Carolina state lawmakers say any effort to raise Charlotte's prepared food tax to help upgrade Bank of America Stadium would require a vote by the public.

The United States posted a $3B federal budget surplus for the month of January, marking the first surplus in about five years.

Paving the way for the 2014 opening of California’s online insurance marketplace, officials on Wednesday rolled out the standard benefits that must be included in each policy and detailed what policies would cost for all those eligible for federal subsidies. A married couple with an annual income of $62,040, for instance, would pay $491 a […]

A man who was supposed to pay federal income taxes on behalf of several small business owners but didn't is going to prison for up 30 months.

Tax preparers across the country are quickly getting into the busy time of the year: Tax season.

A federal grand jury indicted the legal advocate for children in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania on charges of tax evasion and filing two false federal income tax returns stemming from her failure to report payments she received from parents.