The idea of an individual worker credit has been floating around the tax ether for years but never seemed to get traction. That is until...

Today, the House will begin debating the “ Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” —the Republican effort to reverse the far-reaching 2010 health measure...

Sometime this spring, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling. That vote won’t come easy. Newly ascendant House Republicans will threaten to withhold needed...

If you’re among the one-third of taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal tax returns, the IRS says you can take your time filing your...

Tax reformers are pushing President Obama to use his upcoming Jan. 25 State of the Union address to press for a rewrite of the revenue...

In one of their first actions after taking control of the House of Representatives last week, the new Republican majority passed their budget rules for...

Last spring, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the new health legislation would reduce the deficit by $143 billion over ten years. Yesterday, CBO estimated...

Each year for the past decade, Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service, has issued a report to Congress on the...

Each year for the past decade, Nina Olsen, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service, has issued a report to Congress on the...

The battle lines, as they say, have been drawn. In his radio address last Saturday, President Obama said his goal for 2011 is to “do...