Taxes

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France's economy minister says his country's tax regime is becoming internationally competitive, notably now that it has dropped a 75-percent tax on high earners.

Republicans controlling the House have changed the rules on budget scorekeeping and Democrats are unhappy with the new math.

Atlantic City's governing body is expected to vote Wednesday on a proposed financial recovery plan designed to show New Jersey it is serious about taming its out-of-control finances, and is deserving of massive state aid being considered for the city's casinos and its residents.

House Speaker John Boehner's prospects for a new term appeared secure Monday despite grumblings from tea party-aligned dissidents on the eve of a Republican takeover of Congress, while GOP leaders in both houses pointed toward a swift veto showdown with President Barack Obama over the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline.

Mercedes-Benz says it's moving its U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta, in part to be closer to its manufacturing facility in Alabama.

A boost in corporate tax collections last month helped push Arkansas' revenue $44.1 million higher than predicted for the first half of the fiscal year, the state Department of Finance and Administration said Monday.

A looming debate in the state capital could determine just how much rent could increase for more than 2 million residents in New York City.

A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference many feared, but with competition from medical marijuana or even outright black market sales.

To see the tax implications of legalizing marijuana in Colorado, there's no better place to start than an empty plot of land on a busy thoroughfare near downtown Denver.

Small business owners may get more help from Washington in 2015.

Keeping schools and social services funded.

A tax deal touted by New York to lure new business has netted at least one Connecticut company.

The Business Council of New York State is suggesting state leaders resolve in 2015 to keep limiting state budget growth to 2 percent annually and make permanent a property tax cap.

New York officials say 13 more businesses have agreed to expand or locate to tax-free zones sponsored by colleges and universities while committing to bring new jobs.

The IRS says taxpayers can start filing their 2014 tax returns on Jan. 20.

Illinois taxpayers will have a little more spending money next year.

Happy to be back in New Hampshire, the state's new head of travel and tourism also wants to return to school, in a sense, by working with colleges and universities to attract more students.

Few people are more eager to see the clock strike midnight on Dec. 31 than Atlantic City casino executives and the thousands of workers who still have jobs there.

Four of Atlantic City's 12 casinos shut down in 2014 (and a fifth nearly joined them before being rescued under a last-minute financing arrangement).