Taxes

Former American Express CEO Harvey Golub wants Congress to focus on the tax cuts that would generate the most economic growth.

With time running out before Congress turns its attention to the 2018 mid-term elections, small-cap stocks are increasingly acting as a bellwether for the market's expectations that the Trump Administration will reach a deal to significantly cut U.S. corporate tax rates by the end of the year.

As top Democrats and Republicans clash over whether President Trump’s overhaul of the tax system will include tax cuts for wealthy Americans, former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina pointed out Thursday that “wealthy” can be a relative term.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said the best lever for job growth and higher wages is to cut and simplify taxes. He laid out his tax plan on FOX Business Thursday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan backed off months of promises that the Republicans' tax plan won't add to the nation's ballooning deficit, declaring in an AP Newsmaker interview that the most important goal of an overhaul is economic growth.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is declining to say a tax overhaul Republicans are trying to write won't increase federal deficits.

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.