2013 is a tough year if you owe payroll tax, as most of us do. Not only did the 2010 payroll tax cut die at...

House Republicans, former GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and the chairs of President Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, have all called...

A few years ago, it was fashionable to compare California, Illinois, or whatever U.S. state was struggling financially to the troubled island nation of Greece...

It is an article of faith at the White House and among some congressional Republicans that while individual tax reform may be off the table...

Finland’s government recently announced a broad fiscal reform package that cuts corporate tax rates—financed in part by higher taxes on corporate dividends. The plan makes...

Housing industry lobbyists often make the case that, whatever you think of the mortgage interest deduction, now would be a terrible time to eliminate or...

The annual income tax season is no fun for any of us but it can be a lot worse for same-sex couples in California, Nevada,...

You probably read stories over the weekend about how the Senate passed a 2014 budget just before dawn on Saturday morning, a day after the...

The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was not primarily a tax law but it certainly affects the federal taxes that same-sex couples pay. In...

Automatic enrollment is slowly gaining steam as the choice strategy to encourage retirement saving. A bold plan in California would eventually make the practice widespread...