Taxes

Pressure mounted Tuesday on the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature to broker a deal on taxes to pay for hundreds of millions in new education spending and avert a threatened strike of teachers next week.

A growing American economy and passage of a Republican tax overhaul appear to be helping President Donald Trump lift his approval ratings from historic lows.

Europe's bailout fund has approved a 6.7 billion euro ($8.32 billion) loan installment to Greece as part of its third international rescue program, with payment of the first 5.7 billion euros expected this week.

McCormick & Co. is the latest company to offer employees bonuses, citing sweeping tax reforms that slashed corporate tax rates.

The joke has always been that Alaska is so wealthy it pays its residents to live here.

PHONE AND PHISHING SCAMS Income tax filing season brings an increase in activity by would-be thieves using phone calls and email to try to get money out of taxpayers.

New York state's top elected fiscal officer says the average bonus paid to securities industry employees in New York City rose by 17 percent last year as Wall Street profits soared for a second consecutive year.

With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year.

President Ronald Reagan once likened trade wars to the pie fights in old Hollywood comedies.

China's newly appointed economic czar told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that Beijing is ready to defend its interests after President Donald Trump announced plans to slap tariffs on nearly $50 billion in Chinese imports.

CEO Paul Czachor says duties have unintended consequencies.

American Apparel & Footwear CEO Rick Helfenbein warns of impact on consumers.

Sometimes the last train out of the station can't carry everything.

Washington state's sales tax exemption for electric vehicles is expected to end sometime this summer after efforts to extend it stalled during the recent legislative session.

The European Union's executive has unveiled new plans to make big tech companies pay more taxes in a move that would, if endorsed, hit online U.S. giants like Google and Facebook.

A private Vermont ski resort that was the setting for ABC's "The Bachelor Winter Games" has been shut down for failing to pay taxes.

Global finance ministers meeting this week in Buenos Aires were planning to focus on topics like the workforce in an age of automation and how to boost infrastructure investment.

The crackdown on tax loopholes could clamp down on corporate schmoozing.

Republicans in Oklahoma are confronting a serious budget crisis that began after they took full control of state government in 2010.