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President Barack Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households.
There is good news and bad news having no estate tax this year.
A bill has been introduced in the Washington state legislature that would double estate taxes for residents.
An Idaho senator says people who have lost money in fraudulent investment schemes should be able to write off more of their state income taxes.
That's good news for consumer-oriented companies, which are likely to benefit from more incremental spending
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A California couple has filed suit against The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., an American International Group Inc. subsidiary, claiming that the company's sales agents misled investors about the tax advantages of using variable annuities in qualified retirement plans.
President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address called for increasing taxes on investment fund managers, oil companies and those making more than $250,000 a year.
With the upcoming changes to the Roth IRA conversion rules, financial advisers might think that clients would be banging down their doors to convert their traditional individual retirement accounts.
“Headline risk” associated with municipal bonds went up today when the U.S. Census Bureau released data that state government tax collections totaled $715.2 billion in fiscal year 2009. That's a decrease of nearly $67 billion (8.6%) from fiscal 2008.
Remember the last scene of “The Shawshank Redemption,” when Andy Dufresne is fixing his boat on the beach in Mexico? I've always loved the resolution of that movie because our innocent hero has triumphed over evil and walked away with enough money to live the rest of his life exactly as he wants.
A federal judge refused Monday to postpone prison or consider a lighter sentence for a former Swiss banker-turned-informant who helped launch a massive U.S. tax evasion investigation into banking giant UBS AG.
Key lawmakers unveiled a bill Tuesday aiming to crack down on wealthy tax dodgers hiding money overseas.
U.S. clients with more than 1 million Swiss Francs in offshore accounts with UBS could be ratted out.
A New York businessman who admitted hiding assets worth $8 million with Swiss bank UBS AG was sentenced to three months in prison for a Florida tax conviction.
High on the mutual fund industry's “to do” list is defeating legislation that would impose a $150 billion-per-year tax on securities transactions.
