Taxes

A new report from the real estate firm Houwzer aims to dissuade politicians from cutting the 10-year property-tax abatement on new construction.

A proposal floated in Harrisburg would replace the city's sweetened beverage levy with a increase in Philadelphia's sales tax.

Council members would not go along with the mayor's proposed 4 percent real estate tax hike in the budget that will be put to a vote next week.

Senior Kenney administration officials and powerful union leader John Dougherty were emphatic Wednesday about their opposition to a proposed 1 percent tax on construction.

Should private schools that benefit from Pennsylvania’s tax credit programs adhere to the rules of the public system? That d ...

China warned Sunday that any trade deals with the U.S. "will not take effect" if President Donald Trump's threatened tariff hike on Chinese goods goes ahead.

The decision could provoke retaliatory penalties and exacerbate trans-Atlantic and North American trade tensions.

Philadelphia's 10 percent tax on liquor sold by the glass generates between $40 and $60 million a year — exclusively for city schools.

Too many property owners are not paying their fair share of taxes, and many of them live outside Philadelphia, says Councilman Allan Domb.

It’s no secret that successive rounds of property tax reassessments in Philadelphia are giving homeowners agita.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill to soften the effect of the federal tax overhaul's cap on state and local tax deductions.

The gas industry and most Republicans are meeting it with a resounding 'no.'

Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are introducing legislation, again, to impose a severance tax on natural gas production.

The penalty for not having health insurance in 2018 is the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of household income.

The IRS says its system was up and running again by 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.