Power Play: A series of special reports examining the push to reduce or eliminate property taxes in Florida. Florida’s state and local tax structure makes Florida an excellent place to be an affluent ...

A new proposal in Michigan would create a 5-percentage point surcharge on top earners with taxable incomes over $1 million for joint filers and $500,000 for single filers. This would raise about $1.7 ...

Rick Hauser doesn’t understand “regressive” when he says that sales tax isn’t. (“Rich people pay majority of taxes,” Our Readers’ Views, Jan. 10). Even AI gets it right: “Sales tax is considered a ...

Florida has the most regressive tax system in the nation, with the lowest-income residents paying a much higher effective tax rate than the wealthiest. Eliminating property taxes could lead to higher ...

The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only begins to tell the story of how lightly taxed our ...

The White House’s top economic advisors recently advised states to consider repealing taxes on corporate and personal income and to make up for it by drastically raising their sales taxes. This is the ...

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has announced hikes on petrol and sales taxes. Analysts say it is a regressive policy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All Johnson, Lawler, and other Republican moderates ask in return is to expand the budget deficit (which is already more than ...

That's what happens when lawmakers decide that taxing something politically unpopular counts as solving a complex problem. | ...

In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached fiscal responsibility and were reasonably tolerant of the ...