Taxes

Expecting Congress to approve tax reform legislation before the end of the year is optimistic, former Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew says.

The Latest on Congress and Republican efforts to overhaul taxes (all times local): 8:17 a.m.

Speaker Paul Ryan says in AP interview that GOP goal is to have tax overhaul enacted into law by end of this year .

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday he was confident President Donald Trump would push for conservative tax reform and that an outline of a plan to be presented next week reflects consensus between tax writers in Congress and the Trump administration.

Private equity firms were high-fiving Tuesday afternoon when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin suggested that the industry would be able to fully retain a lucrative but controversial tax loophole, under a budget and tax proposal being considered by the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is pushing lawmakers to "move fast" on a tax overhaul.

Pushing toward the Republicans' prime goal of tax legislation, the GOP Senate leader and members of the Budget Committee are scrambling to come up with a budget deal to clear the way for the first tax overhaul in three decades.

The Latest on Republican efforts to overhaul taxes (all times local): 9:31 a.m.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals is the latest corporate giant to announce it will relocate its headquarters out of Connecticut, a trend that could spell trouble for the state.

Senate Republicans are struggling with how many billions of dollars President Donald Trump's tax code overhaul will add to the deficit as they work on a GOP budget plan that's a prerequisite to any far-reaching change in the nation's tax system.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he is hopeful that Congress will pass a major tax overhaul this year and is signaling that the administration would be open to changes sought by Congress to improve the chances for passage.

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to host a bipartisan group of senators for dinner on Tuesday to make a push for tax reform and other top agenda items a week after he made an alliance with Democrats on raising the debt ceiling and funding government.

After Hurricane Harvey barreled into Texas and ahead of the undetermined destruction the Southeast faces as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida, the estimated cost of the recent natural disasters remains uncertain.