What if the government tried to give American taxpayers some of their money back, but the taxpayers didn't seem to want it?
Appeals filed on behalf of a husband and wife imprisoned for tax evasion were dismissed by a federal court because the couple did not pay the filing fees.
A convicted tax evader who had holed up in his home for months after walking out of his federal trial arrived Wednesday at a federal prison in Ohio, authorities said.
After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
A couple convicted of tax evasion who threatened violence if authorities approached them were arrested peacefully at their rural Plainfield home after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, U.S. Marshals said.
A couple convicted of tax evasion were arrested peacefully at their Plainfield home Thursday night after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Quebec enacted Canada's first carbon tax on energy companies this week, despite fears it could also target industries that use large amounts of petroleum and carbon products.
Arguing it is unfair to continue to pass the cost of the war in Iraq to future generations, three senior House Democrats Tuesday offered a long-shot plan to raise taxes to pay for the $150 billion bill for the war in 2008.
Tribune Co. said Monday it has received a refund of about $344 million in income taxes and interest paid under a 2005 federal tax court ruling in a case it settled with the government.
Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage: people with relatively little money and education.
Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. To back up his claim he is proposing a recipe many people won't like — a 50-cent gasoline tax, a carbon tax and scaling back tax breaks for some home owners.
Tennessee's tax on illegal drugs is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," an appeals court declared in ruling the "crack tax" was unconstitutional because it derives revenue from illegal activities.
A Japanese housewife who made $3.4 million as an amateur foreign exchange trader was convicted Friday of evading taxes from the profits, according to media reports.
There's no need to raise the federal gasoline tax, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says, dimming the hopes of some in his party who want the increase to help pay for nationwide bridge repair.
California regulators voted on Tuesday to raise taxes on "alcopops," flavored alcoholic beverages some say are packaged to appeal to youth and contribute to underage drinking.
A judge threw out charges Monday against 13 former KPMG employees who were accused of participating in a fraud that helped the wealthy escape $2.5 billion in taxes. The ruling essentially guts what the government once called the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history.
House Democrats' promise to permanently protect millions of middle-class families from a mostly unknown tax increase is faltering before it's even unveiled.
Money for your mental anguish is taxable.
The first half of what is billed as the biggest tax cut in Florida's history became law Thursday with Gov. Charlie Crist's signature, but taxpayers may be disappointed that the average homeowner will save less than $200 a year.
To avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms.
Federal authorities have cut phone, power and Internet service at the fortified compound of a couple convicted of tax evasion who have refused to report to prison.
A day after heavily armed officers surrounded his fortified compound, a convicted tax evader said Friday he believes federal agents planned to raid his home before they were discovered by one of his supporters.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that only the U.S. Tax Court may review refusals by the Internal Revenue Service to reduce interest payments on people who underpay their taxes.
A cash crunch is fast approaching for the government trust fund that pays to build and repair highways and bridges.
You want to tax us? We'll tax you back.