Fifty-five million Social Security beneficiaries can look forward to a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment in 2012.
More than 70% agree that wealthy should kick in more, but half say they're not wealthy
New Jersey's wealthy saying goodbye to on-demand garbage pick up, hello to higher property taxes
Advisers say mortgage interest deduction makes for an easy target for politicians; could hurt middle class more than rich, though
Lawmakers considering tax reforms turned their focus last week to the implications that changes could have on financial products.
Uncertainty about what Congress does in 2012 confounding clients, tax planners; 'lot of unhappy people'
Even with reforms, advisers could sally forth with new schemes
President Barack Obama's plan to cut the budget deficit repeats his call for curbing the tax exemption on municipal bonds and would give states a break on unemployment debts owed the federal government
The failure of the deficit reduction supercommittee last week all but guarantees that the gridlock over tax reform, including the Bush-era tax cuts, will continue beyond next year's presidential election
President Barack Obama today signed into law a bill that would kill a withholding tax on government contractors even before it was levied for the first time.
Like baseball fans whose team came up short, those hoping for an overhaul of the tax code by the congressional deficit-cutting supercommittee likely will have to wait until next year
Republican lawmakers coming over to the idea that Uncle Sam must raise more revenue to make real impact on deficit; Grover Norquist not thrilled
U.S. Senate Democrats are proposing to use a 3.25 percent surtax on income over $1 million to pay for extending and expanding a payroll tax cut, setting up a test vote as early as this week.
The percentage of Americans who changed residences reached its lowest point last year in more than six decades, according to the Census Bureau
The Occupy Wall Street protest movement, which has filled streets and parks in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and other cities for weeks, may soon show up in the halls of power, too
New York is where the 1% live, and they have the tax returns to prove it.
The detailed tax plans from Republican presidential candidates would provide tax cuts for the highest earners, with those from Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman offering the biggest benefits
Supercommittee notion of doing away with exemption not so super; going down the Whitney path
