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A combination of government policies is finally succeeding in reversing a long decline in solar manufacturing in the United States. Six years ago, an executive from Suniva, a bankrupt solar [...]

WASHINGTON -- White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury [...]

Congressional Republicans investigating targeting of political groups by the Internal Revenue Service are focused on what government officials knew about the department's actions, and when they found out about it. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, [...]

During the summer of 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations on Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt [...]

Berkeley, Calif. THE fire that killed 112 workers at a garment factory in the suburbs of Bangladesh's capital last month was a stark reminder of the human costs of producing [...]

WITH payouts on conventional investments miserly and tax increases looming on Jan. 1, financial advisers are talking up an alternative investment that offers much greater income and tax breaks: master [...]

There is little dispute that statehouses across the nation are greatly in the sway of a conservative, pro-business advocacy organization called ALEC, for the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC has [...]

WASHINGTON -- Four months before Mitt Romney signed his health care plan into law in Massachusetts in 2006, he told a conservative group that the state's tax code would be [...]

The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes Monday's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. At the close of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED A growing number of nonprofit groups in California are being denied exemption from property taxes because the state's chief tax collector and assessors contend they do not do [...]

Situated in the heart of busy, prosperous Lincoln Park, the three-way intersection of Halsted Street and Lincoln and Fullerton Avenues seems engineered for a traffic jam. Now the pending redevelopment [...]

The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes Monday's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. According to traders, at [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED HAR BRACHA, West Bank -- Twice a year, American evangelicals show up at a winery in this Jewish settlement in the hills of ancient Samaria to play a [...]

When Congress passed an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers last winter, it was intended as a dose of shock therapy during a crisis. Now the question is becoming […]

The Treasury's schedule of financing this week included today's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow. At the close of the […]

The Bloomberg administration said this week that it planned to require many developers who construct apartment buildings under a popular tax break to pay the superintendents and janitors the prevailing […]

The feud between Cablevision and proponents of a West Side stadium intensified yesterday, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg calling on the company to surrender a multimillion-dollar property tax exemption, labeling […]

Connecticut has offered tax concessions to Warburg Dillon Read if it agrees to expand its headquarters and bring more jobs to the state. Warburg Dillon Read, the investment banking arm […]

With a tax break for lump-sum pension payouts due to expire at the end of the year, many retirees or other people leaving a job may be tempted to pull [...]

One day after President Clinton vetoed the $792 billion, 10-year Republican tax cut, the House Ways and Means Committee today approved a far smaller package of routine tax provisions, but […]

Amid finger-pointing and political backlash, the Suffolk County Legislature was unable to pass a resolution that could have led to a 4.25 percent exemption from the county sales tax on […]

WHEN Debbie Chewning started searching for her first home last year, she often drove from her rental apartment here to the bucolic streets of Takoma Park in Maryland, just across […]

Three months after New York City granted a generous tax break to one division of Time Warner Inc., the Giuliani administration has agreed to provide the media giant with an […]

A $50 gift from the State Capitol for every adult might seem a welcome bonus on the steep streets of this blue-collar town, which has been the victim of a […]

The Giuliani administration has struck a tentative deal to give Bertelsmann A.G. a $25 million package of tax breaks and other subsidies for a new office tower at Broadway and […]

After more than six months of negotiations, the New Castle Town Board has unanimously approved a $14.3 million reduction in the assessed value of Reader's Digest's 113-acre Chappaqua campus, to […]

As a vibrant center for space and technology research, this city in northern Alabama owes much of its character to an immigrant, Wernher van Braun, the German rocket scientist who […]

A bill described by critics as a $15 million tax break for the casino mogul Steven Wynn has won final approval in the Nevada Assembly. The bill, endorsed in a […]

A manufacturing company that promised to create 25 jobs in return for $1.1 million in tax breaks but instead cut 30 jobs from its payroll is giving the money back. […]

Like braving the Batman ride at Six Flags Great Adventure or eating at the Hard Rock Cafe in its first heady months, visiting the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art means […]

To the Editor: Re 'Flirting With a Buy Order for $1 Trillion in Stock' (Week in Review, Feb. 7): Even with the recent correction, the stock market is still overvalued. […]

To the Editor: Re 'Flirting With a Buy Order for $1 Trillion in Stock' (Week in Review, Feb. 7): Projections of 6 percent to 7 percent returns over the next […]

To the Editor: Re 'To Build Savings, Cut Taxes' (Op-Ed, Feb. 8): What Senators Paul D. Coverdell and Robert G. Torricelli are saying is, We can give you a break […]

To the Editor: The suggestion by Paul D. Coverdell and Robert G. Torricelli ('To Build Savings, Cut Taxes,' Op-Ed, Feb. 8) is flawed. While their tax proposals sound appealing, two […]

Representative Bill Archer, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, plans to propose the first piece of a tax-cutting plan: an incentive for local governments to build more […]

Even as it pushes for market competition as a means to cheaper electricity, the Pataki administration has withdrawn a tax break granted to businesses and individuals that shop around for […]

The income-tax deduction for home mortgage interest is one of the most popular politically, but its economic effects are perverse: Experts call it an 'upside down' subsidy because the more […]

The Republican leaders of the State Senate say they intend to push a far-reaching plan through the Legislature that would, for the first time, provide a tax deduction for the […]

The police have accused the town's tax assessor, appraiser and two other employees of giving themselves illegal tax breaks. A six-month investigation revealed that Francis Barta, the assessor, and Kenneth […]

President Clinton vetoed as promised today a Republican-backed bill that would have provided tax breaks for parents who saved for education costs, including private-school tuition. 'By sending me this bill, […]

Many of those who own the largest pieces of farmland are not doing much farming, a newspaper has reported. Of the biggest owners of property assessed as farmland, and therefore […]

The nation's tax collectors are planning a surfing safari on the Web to hunt for nonprofit groups that are really commercial enterprises in charitable camouflage. The Internal Revenue Service is […]

In an effort to help New Jersey's growing movie industry, lawmakers plan to unveil legislation tomorrow that would exempt from the state's 6 percent sales tax purchases related to the […]

To the Editor: Re 'The Struggle for Personal Attention in Day Care' (front page, April 27): While care giver-to-child ratios are important to the quality of day care, the training […]

To the Editor: Your April 27 front-page article on the value of low child-adult ratios in day care centers resonates with our experience providing early education and child care in […]

To the Editor: Re 'An Unfair Tuition Tax Break' (editorial, April 26): I fail to see why you think it is fair for me to be able to deduct a […]

To the Editor: I disagree with your April 26 editorial opposing a tax break for families with children in private schools. As it stands now, parents who send their children […]

To the Editor: Your April 26 editorial on the education bill approved by the Senate claims that the bill would 'give modest tax breaks to mostly higher-income families with children […]