Big companies will pay the tab for tax breaks going to small firms under the minimum wage bill that Congress is likely to pass soon. To ease the pain of the $2.10-per-hour increase in the minimum wage, Congress added a number of breaks, most designed Big...
Congress won't fix a controversial export tax break this year, despite the cost to U.S. exporters, who must pay higher tariffs in Europe. The duties were imposed in retaliation for the U.S. failure to end the tax exemption for overseas sales by Ameri Congress won't fix...
[TABULAR DATA OMITTED] A handful of cable deals that snagged when Congress terminated tax breaks for media acquisitions involving minorities are largely back on track, but the African-Americans have been cot out of the deals. The $2.3 billion ...
Congress hopes to wrap up its legislative business for the year this week, meaning furious battles over the federal budget, tax breaks and a proposed increase in the minimum wage. The long-running budget impasse between congressional Republicans Congress hopes to wrap...
A hodgepodge of farm tax breaks is on Congress' plate... not just FFARRM accounts pushed by Sen. Finance Chm. Chuck Grassley. Lawmakers from farm states will try to cram as many of them as possible into the tax-cut package that Congress is likely to A...
Congress will retroactively revive tax breaks that end June 30... the R&D tax credit plus the welfare-to-work and work-opportunity credits. Because taxwriters will not start working on the tax bill until mid-July, after these provisions have laps Congress will retroactively revive tax breaks that end June...
WASHINGTON-Backers of legislation that would make it easier for trade associations to offer health care plans to their members hope that presidential support for the proposal will lead to its enactment. Identical legislation-known as the ``Small Bu WASHINGTON-Backers of legislation that would make it...
By Tara Tuckwiller, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Tara Tuckwiller, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman today called on the House of Representatives to extend the child tax credit to 12 million children in working poor families left behind by the Bush AdministratiWASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Children's Defense Fund President Marian...