Taxes

Trump's verbal shots against McConnell complicate his agenda

Donald Trump's attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell come at the worst possible time, if the president's goal is actually to accomplish the agenda on health care, infrastructure and taxes he's goading his GOP ally to pass.

Texas scraps some toll roads while other states add more

Texas officials have recently moved to scrap tolls on several highways for the first time in 40 years, bucking a national trend toward more tolls on mostly urban roadways to shift the costs of transportation to those who use the roads.

Federal government warns Cook County on soda tax collection

The federal government is threatening to withhold about $87 million in food stamp funds from the state of Illinois if Cook County doesn't alter the manner in which the penny-an-ounce tax on sweetened beverages has been implemented.

Trump White House turning to Democrats for tax reform

President Donald Trump’s administration has continued to indicate they prefer to work out a bipartisan deal on tax reform and one of the groups they’ve turned to is the moderates within the Democratic Party, the Blue Dog Coalition.

Democrats being shunned on tax reform talks? White House cries foul

While the Senate Finance Committee has been tasked with working with other members of Congress to craft President Trump’s tax reform agenda, some of the Democrats within the committee are telling FOX Business that they’ve been kept on the sidelines for almost the entire process.