Taxes

Nevada lawmakers on Thursday were hearing details of a number of widely supported tax abatement bills that legislators say will create better paying jobs in the state.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded $48 billion worth of Puerto Rico debt as the U.S. territory struggles to generate more revenue.

Officials representing hospitals, private colleges and other nonprofit organizations told lawmakers on Thursday that a proposal that would require them to pay property taxes to municipalities would devastate their budgets, forcing them to hike costs or slash programs.

A plan to increase the state fuel tax by 10 cents a gallon gained momentum in the Iowa Legislature Thursday, after the House Republican leader made some key membership changes to a committee to help ensure the legislation passed a procedural hurdle.

Members of an influential farming group lobbied Iowa lawmakers on Wednesday to approve a fuel tax increase to pay for road improvements.

Michigan is potentially on the hook for $9.4 billion in business tax credits over the next two decades, nearly $3 billion more than projected just weeks ago, the state's top economic development official said Wednesday.

New York authorities have accused United Parcel Service in a federal lawsuit of shipping 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes in the state between 2010 and 2014 despite an earlier agreement to stop.

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A plan to hike the state's fuel tax by 10 cents kept moving quickly through the Iowa Legislature on Tuesday.

Since the night he was elected, Gov. Bruce Rauner has repeatedly said he wants Illinois to be the most competitive yet compassionate state in the nation.

More than 1.4 million Californians have either signed up or renewed their coverage for individual private insurance in the second year of the federal health expansion, a state official said Tuesday.

Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund government programs they were banned from receiving.

New Jersey is committing to increase job training as new companies plan to bring thousands of jobs to a city that ranks among the nation's most impoverished.

Top lawmakers are pushing to exempt Social Security, pensions and other retirement income from the state income tax as a way to stop seniors from leaving Rhode Island.

For anyone betting on the Northeast's casino bonanza, the odds are long on projects hitting financial expectations.

The Arizona Senate on Monday joined the House in passing a bill that adjusts tax brackets every year to account for inflation, despite a large state budget deficit.

The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.

Despite questions about four challengers' legal right to bring their lawsuit, the Supreme Court probably will not be deterred from deciding whether millions of people covered by the health care overhaul are eligible for the subsidies that make their insurance affordable.

Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund government programs they were banned from receiving.