Tax bills recently passed in Missouri and neighboring Illinois underscore the contrasting approaches that red and blue states ...

A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.

Today, Texas voters will get the final say on 17 constitutional amendments — usually listed as statewide propositions at the ...

Penalties for failing to notify HMRC about a capital gains tax liability have doubled in the past two years, according to new figures – and experts have said this could be the “tip of the iceberg”. A ...

This amendment would prohibit the state from imposing a tax on realized or unrealized capital gains on individual, family, estate or trust investments. Recommended vote: For Texas doesn’t impose a ...

The IRS released its numbers despite the ongoing government shutdown Here's what you should know about next year's tax rates on long-term capital gains. Attention, investors. Income-tax rules are here ...

Nigeria is tripling capital gains tax for foreign equity investors, raising concerns that the move may trigger a sell-off in the West African nation’s stock market, which is up almost 40% this year.

When I was in law school, my dad advised me to take as many tax courses as possible, because every aspect of the law involves tax. So, in the spring of 1997, I took Income Taxation at 8 a.m. I drank a ...

Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is the tax paid on the profit you make when you sell an asset for more than you originally paid for it. In South Africa, CGT applies to individuals, companies, and trusts and ...

Good morning. I’m Globe financial columnist Larry Edelman, writer of the Trendlines business newsletter. (You can sign up here.) Today, I look at one way to chip away at the frozen housing market: ...

In July, we told you about a move in Congress to scrap federal capital gains tax (CGT) on the sale of owner-occupied homes ("principal residences"). But unless and until that proposal becomes law, ...