Macron Urges Dialogue Amid Protests, Defends Gas Tax Hikes
France’s embattled President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended fuel tax hikes that have prompted nationwide protests, but called for “dialogue” to calm tensions.
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French Rise Up Against Fuel Tax Hikes
Anti-tax protesters continued Monday to block roads and disrupt traffic in France after a chaotic and violent weekend of demonstrations against government fuel taxes meant to force pollution-causing vehicles off the roads and make France less dependent on oil.
Read moreCalifornians Reject Gas-Tax Repeal, Rent-Control Bid
Delivering a parting gift to outgoing Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, California voters rejected a Republican-led attempt to repeal Brown’s recently enacted $52 billion transportation plan known as the gas tax.
Read moreEU Court Revives Religious-Exemption Fight in Italy
EU regulators that called out improper tax exemptions granted to religious businesses in Italy should have demanded recovery of the aid as well, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.
Read moreTax Court Affirms Rejection of Wesley Snipes Settlement Offer
The United States Tax Court on Thursday held the actor Wesley Snipes failed to justify a low-ball offer to settle IRS tax claims against him, meaning he may be on the hook for $9.5 million.
Read moreSan Francisco Voters Eye Homeless Tax on Big Business
Supporters of a ballot measure to raise taxes on San Francisco’s biggest companies to fight homelessness say the city must take bold steps to address the crisis. But opponents say it will accomplish little more than harming the city’s booming job market.
Read moreHigh Court Tribal Tax Fight Turns on 1855 Treaty
A 163-year-old treaty was the focus of Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday as lawyers sparred over attempts to tax a fuel distributor owned by a member of the Yakama Nation.
Read moreClergy Housing Tax Break Lands in Seventh Circuit
Churches and the IRS joined forces Wednesday before a sympathetic Seventh Circuit panel to argue that a 65-year-old income tax housing exemption for clergy members does not violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
Read moreReports Find Bank Tax Fraud Cost Europe $63 Billion
It’s being called the biggest fraud investigation of Europe’s postwar period: a heist by banks and investors that allegedly plundered $63 billion from state treasuries across Europe.
Read moreCalifornia Gas Tax Mobilizes Repeal Movement
As traffic inched along Interstate 5 in Burbank, California on Thursday morning, Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox asked a crowd at a Walmart parking lot if they were ready to repeal a statewide gas tax in November.
Read moreProperty-Tax Reform Plan Qualifies for 2020 California Ballot
In two years, California voters will have the chance to approve wholesale changes to a landmark property tax code and squeeze billions in new taxes from state businesses.
Read moreTrial Judge Presses Mueller on Deadlocked Charges From Manafort Trial
The federal judge who presided over former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial in Virginia wants to know when – or if – the special counsel’s team will pursue a series of counts the jury deadlocked on last summer.
Read moreOpponents of Millionaire Tax Fight Massachusetts Disclosure Rules
A conservative nonprofit that plans to attack Massachusetts taxes in a pre-election ad campaign brought a federal complaint Wednesday to keep its donors secret.
Read moreJudge Signs Off on DOJ Taking Manafort New York Properties
A federal judge signed off on the forfeiture of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort’s Trump Tower apartment and his home in the Hamptons on Wednesday, ordering the Justice Department to take control of them later this month.
Read moreNuns Launch US Bus Tour Against GOP Tax Plan
The Republican tax law signed by President Donald Trump this past December will be the focus of a group of Catholic nuns whose cross-country bus tour will end at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Read more‘Jersey Shore’ Star Sentenced to Eight Months in Prison
Getting one-third of the time handed to his brother, former “Jersey Shore” cast member Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was ordered Friday to do eight months in federal prison for not paying taxes.
Read moreTax-Exempt Status Restored for White Nationalist Group
The IRS has returned tax-exempt status to a white nationalist group that for years did not file tax returns, group leader Richard Spencer announced Thursday.
Read moreMacron’s Star Dims as Ministers Leave, Public Sours
He was compared to Barack Obama – a young and optimistic political star bringing hope and big ideas to a nation suffering through years of political pessimism. Now, the political fortunes of French President Emmanuel Macron are in trouble.
Read moreTrump Slams Times ‘Hit Piece’ on Reported Tax-Avoidance Plan
President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed outrage over a New York Times report that he received at least $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud.
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