Taxes

Millions of Americans will file their federal income tax returns on April 15 with no idea what the government actually does with all that money.

Dean Baker: There is nothing natural about the government giving tax exempt status to big money non-profits.

The taxes paid by corporations today are near record lows as a percentage of the United States' total tax bill, even as they are recording massive profits.

To avoid waste, reduce inequality and maintain some semblance of market efficiency, income taxes should be used to make money as meaningful to a millionaire as it is to …

Section 162(m) has failed as tax policy, but it does two things to perfection: it runs up federal red ink, and it shows contempt for taxpayers.

President Obama's 2015 budget proposes a number of tax increases that will mainly affect the rich.

When you have 305 million chickens on the Eastern Shore, that's a lot of poultry waste polluting the Chesapeake Bay.

Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …

The comments address widespread abuses of the Internal Revenue Code by groups that claim to be eligible for tax-exempt status.

A new report shows that, contrary to misinformation spread by some politicians and pundits, America's highest paid “government” workers are not your local teachers, nurses, or sanitation workers.