Government And Institutions

A new Senate report alleges that Apple blows through a loophole to avoid paying corporate income taxes. Here's how it does it. 

Aviation industry executives from Europe and North America appealed to governments to ease the way ahead by cutting taxes and red tape. 

Faced with mounting ire over a scandal in which the IRS targeted conservative groups, ousted acting commissioner Steven Miller apologized for 'foolish mistakes' the agency made.

The New York attorney general's office said it was investigating allegations that fast-food operators in the state are underpaying workers in violation of labor laws.

Republicans in control of the House Education and the Workforce Committee voted on Thursday to advance legislation tying student loan interest rates to the financial markets.

A Senate committee voted along party lines to the president's controversial nominee to a full confirmation vote.

President Obama promised Thursday to fix problems at the IRS as his administration faces a burgeoning scandal over the agency's targeting of conservative groups in nonprofit applications.

The Treasury Department announced the first of a potential series of emergency cash measures to allow the government to pay its bills when a temporary debt ceiling suspension lapses this weekend.

The speaker of the House raised the possibility of jail time for law violations in the growing scandal involving the IRS.

The IRS’s targeting of tax-exempt applications from conservative social welfare groups is worse than initially believed, a new report shows.

Emac's Bottom Line: The IRS is not some mindless, acultural thing. It’s populated by human beings prone to political pressures. Here's a look at its history and what to expect from the  coming hearings.

A temporary suspension of the U.S. debt ceiling expires on May 19, but the Treasury Department should be able to borrow for several more months by employing unusual cash management tools. 

The IRS has found itself in a deepening scandal over targeting certain nonprofit profit groups, including Tea Party supporters. Here's what every taxpayer should know. 

Over two years, IRS field office agents repeatedly changed their criteria while sifting through thousands of applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status to select ones for possible closer examination, the findings showed.

A Senate committee launched a weeks-long effort to pass a comprehensive immigration bill with a warning from the panel's top Republican that he would make the process as long and 'arduous' as possible.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 323,000, the lowest level in nearly 5-1/2 years.

The group pushing  to do something about runaway deficit spending, is loaded with highly compensated CEOs who know more about prosperity than austerity.

The president tapped Mike Froman and Penny Pritzker for the last two vacant Cabinet slots on his economic team.

Securities regulators unanimously agreed to propose new rules for the over-the-counter derivatives business of foreign banks.

By some important gauges inflation has recently fallen below levels deemed desirable by the Fed.