President Obama wants to privatize one of the nation’s largest government-owned companies, a proposal that is bringing pushback from some unlikely sources: politicians who ordinarily promote them
As surely as there is a hurricane season, there apparently is also a season to try to shift insurance risks away from people who own property in hurricane-prone areas to property insurance buyers a
A federal judge in San Francisco has declared “national security letters” from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to banks, phone companies, and other businesses to be unconstitutional.
The Board of Governors of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has voted to transfer $30 billion of hurricane exposure from the state-run insurer to Florida-based Weston Insurance Co.
In the past few years, members of Congress have proposed several bills to expand states’ ability to tax purchases made online and from mail-order catalogs. Yesterday, U.S. Sens.
As Congress considers whether to allow tax rates, including those on capital gains, to rise in 2013, some state legislators are debating whether to change their state-level capital gains taxes.
In its fourth annual analysis of global financial regulations, audit, tax, and advisory firm KPMG says investment managers still face daunting challenges from a changing global regulatory environme
The United States has the highest corporate tax rate among the 34 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in addition to being one of the few nations still usin
As reported in the March 3, 2013 Idaho Statesman, a woman who has been designated a vexatious litigant by three western states for filing frivolous lawsuits--as well as by federal courts at the...
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