Taxes

Sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law doesn't start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers who risk losing financial aid when they renew for 2016.

Revelers arrived in cars sporting the American flag and wore clothes in red, white and blue as they celebrated the anniversary of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood political party with deafening salsa music and speeches.

Natural gas producers in Kentucky shoulder all the responsibility for paying severance taxes on the fuel and cannot shift some of the tax burden to landowners, the state's Supreme Court said in a divided ruling Thursday.

California's health insurance exchange is still sluggish when it comes to resolving customer service problems, leaving many people unable to access health care or finalize their tax returns, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday.

Michigan legislators took a step Wednesday to help Detroit collect unpaid city income taxes from residents who work in the suburbs, a move linked to efforts to persuade Democrats from the city to back an elusive $1.2 billion road-funding plan.

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker's plan for replacing President Barack Obama's health care law would extend refundable tax credits to help pay for private health insurance based on age instead of income, restructure Medicaid and allow people to shop for insurance across state lines.

A new Nevada program that allows parents to claim state per-pupil education funding and use it toward private school is garnering national headlines and hundreds of applications, but its lesser-known and higher-paying cousin is off to a slow start.

Large crowds at a weekend beach concern have a state lawmaker more convinced than ever that his bill to give tax breaks to A-list performers that commit to multi-night stands in Atlantic City would give the struggling city a financial boost.

New Jersey's tax haul appears to be on the upswing.

Shares of Kohl's sank 10 percent Thursday after the department store operator said state sales tax holidays hurt its sales in the second quarter and said back-to-school sales got off to a slow start.

Arizona must refund millions of dollars it collected from a rental car tax that funds stadium projects and tourism efforts in Maricopa County after the tax was earlier declared unconstitutional, a judge ruled.

Higher state income taxes have kicked in for Connecticut's wealthiest residents, with a top lawmaker confident the new rates will generate nearly $300 million in expected revenue.

Nebraska counties and midsize cities are expected to receive an extra $3 million each year for street and bridge work under changes unveiled Tuesday by Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Kentucky has paid off a $972 million federal loan two years ahead of schedule, shedding one of the last vestiges of the recession and saving businesses an estimated $165 million in taxes.

Three years on, a much-watched deal to settle a sales tax collection dispute between Texas and Amazon.com appears to have benefited both sides, according to an analysis published Sunday by The Austin American-Statesman.

Minnesota lawmakers pumped the brakes Wednesday on Gov. Mark Dayton's call for a special session to aid Mille Lacs Lake businesses hurting from the early closure of walleye fishing season, instead suggesting a different solution: re-open the lake to walleye fishing.

California closed an ugly chapter in its financial history on Wednesday by making its final payment on $14.2 billion in costly borrowing that plugged a budget deficit 11 years ago but eventually cost taxpayers about $5 billion in interest and fees.

A bipartisan investigation of the IRS is blaming management problems at the tax agency for the mistreatment of conservative political groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.

Romania's central bank forecasts that consumer prices will fall until spring next year after the government slashed the sales tax on food from 24 to 9 percent.

About 1.8 million households that got financial help for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law now have issues with their tax returns.