Taxes

Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says state and local governments offered an estimated $1.5 billion in incentives for a $9.4 billion plastics complex.

Tax day has already come and gone.

The Associated Press lost $74 million in 2017, mostly due to one-time accounting charges related to the federal tax overhaul passed late last year.

U.S. stocks are higher Tuesday morning as investors applaud strong first-quarter results from companies including machinery maker Caterpillar, appliance maker Whirlpool and Fifth Third Bancorp.

A company based in Taiwan has bought a 2,400-acre (970-hectare) site in Louisiana for a planned $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex .

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that added sales taxes to some items to benefit public transportation and cultural groups in metropolitan Denver without voter approval.

If the U.S. GDP hits 3%, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will pay for itself, the Treasury secretary said.

President Trump signed cuts into law in December, but most of the changes will affect next year’s returns.

The Treasury Department is looking into the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service.

On one of the busiest tax days of the year, IRS software failures highlight a desperate need for the agency to modernize its systems.

The Latest on the outage of the IRS payment website (all times local): 4:10 p.m.

___ IMF: A major trade rift could imperil solid global economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund warned that rising trade tensions between the United States and China risk undermining a global economy that the IMF believes should otherwise grow solidly this year.

As the legislative session winds down, lawmakers in Maine are mulling over whether to consider the Republican governor's $90 million tax breaks proposal and a competing $52 million plan backed by Democrats.

Just in time for tax day: the IRS website to make payments is down.

Ivanka Trump says Tax Day is nothing to celebrate, but most Americans will be much happier the next time the filing day rolls around.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether a rule it announced decades ago in a case involving a catalog retailer should still apply in the age of the internet.

On Tax Day, the White House inflated the public's expectations that Tuesday's filing deadline marked the last time that figuring out taxes will drive Americans crazy.

The Latest on arguments in a Supreme Court case about businesses' collection of sales tax on purchases made on the internet: 11:30 a.m.

“This is a case made by your countryman John Locke, who argued that taxation is theft."

On the eve of Tax Day, President Donald Trump is exaggerating the government's plans to shrink the much-dreaded federal income tax forms.aa