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Municipalities and special districts sometimes place water-related charges on property tax bills — either as recurring service levies, special assessments, or to collect unpaid utility balances — but ...
Three Midwestern states — Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska — moved in recent years to eliminate state taxation of Social Security benefits, and West Virginia has enacted a phased elimination that complet...
Donald Trump long resisted releasing personal tax returns; the IRS is barred from public disclosure except to authorized bodies, and news organizations have reported years of returns obtained privatel...
Yes — U.S. senators do pay federal (and state) income taxes on their salaries; congressional pay is set by law and treated as taxable income under the Internal Revenue Code, and special rules and limi...
Multiple independent audits and congressional reports have alleged a pattern of legal violations and oversight-avoidance by the Trump administration, centering on removals of inspectors general, retal...
Donald Trump refused to publicly release his tax returns during his presidency for a mix of tactical, legal and reputational reasons: he repeatedly invoked an IRS audit as justification while his alli...
The IRS has pushed the applicability date for certain SECURE Act–related RMD regulations from the 2025 distribution year to no earlier than the 2026 distribution year, giving plan sponsors and recordk...
Members of Congress may receive retirement annuities under two different systems: the older Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS); the annuity is co...
Efforts to eliminate property taxes in U.S. states have been mostly aspirational or partial so far: several ballot drives and legislative proposals have sought either total abolition or large rollback...