Taxes

The European Union's anti-trust watchdog has launched a probe into whether Luxembourg might have broken state aid rules by giving tax breaks to French electricity group GDF Suez, which is now known as Engie.

A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: IRAN Last year's nuclear deal with Tehran has removed for now the threat of a U.S.-Iranian military confrontation.

David Malpass, an economic advisor for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, said on Friday that corporate tax rates are hurting America’s economic growth.

The Latest on Facebook's decision to build a new data center in New Mexico (all times local): Noon Facebook officials say they're thrilled to have found a home in New Mexico for their $250 million data center.

Gov. Jerry Brown says he's vetoing seven bills that would have carved out special tax breaks, including legislation that would have made California the latest state to scrap so-called tampon taxes on feminine hygiene products.

State voters are being promised that millions of dollars in new funding will flow to programs for senior citizens and the horse racing industry and to help a struggling Atlantic City if they approve a ballot question authorizing two new casinos near New York City.

China's auto sales grew strongly again in August, driven by demand for smaller cars and the impending end of a sales tax cut.

Gov. Jerry Brown extended the nation's most ambitious climate change law Thursday by another 10 years as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution.

As recent graduates settle into their new jobs, many of them will have questions about saving money, managing their 401 (k) and balancing student loan payments.

With Congress back at work, small business owners are hoping issues they care about like tax reform or health care will get some attention.

TAX RELIEF FOR LOUISIANA The IRS is offering tax help to residents and businesses in Louisiana's flood-damaged areas.

What do wealthy executives Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin all have in common? They all received the paltry salary of $1 last year.

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Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the U.S. technology giant received illegal tax benefits over 11 years.

The European Union's crackdown on corporate tax avoidance has landed on Apple ; its antitrust regulator is demanding that the U.S. tech giant pay Ireland up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes.

The race between a small town on the Rio Grande in New Mexico and a Salt Lake City suburb to entice a new Facebook data center with millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies is raising questions about public investments in a booming cloud-computing economy that typically brings few local jobs.

'Second Amendment Weekend' will give gun buyers a reprieve from sales taxes in two states.

California lawmakers voted Wednesday to extend the state's landmark climate change law — the most aggressive in the nation — by another 10 years, resisting fierce opposition from oil companies and other business interests to keep the program alive at least through 2030.

The Social Security program pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. How big is the Social Security shortfall?

Each year New York farmers give millions of pounds of apples, squash, corn or other agricultural products to the state's food banks. Now they're looking to get some credit for those good deeds — a tax credit.