WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Democrats succeeded Thursday in blocking a Republican effort to link an increase in the minimum wage to a permanent cut in the estate tax.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- The Bush administration plans to cut nearly in half the number of auditors who review tax returns of some of the wealthiest U.S. taxpayers.
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he will bring a bill permanently cutting the estate tax to the floor if he can be sure it will get a vote.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Republicans Thursday failed to bring repeal of the estate tax -- or as its opponents call it the "death tax" -- to the floor for a vote.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A leading proponent of abolishing the federal estate tax reportedly looked into using Hurricane Katrina victims to promote the cause.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate is close to a bipartisan compromise on the federal estate tax that would largely phase out the lightning-rod issue.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- The prospect that the United States might bury its estate tax has moved dramatically closer to reality with the House voting to kill the so-called death tax.
LANSING, Mich., June 24 (UPI) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill raising Michigan's tax on a pack of cigarettes 75 cents to $2, the second highest cigarette tax in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Virginia's Gov. Mark R. Warner wants to overhaul his state's tax structure -- on who and what gets taxed -- but not to increase the net amount collected.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- An effort by Republicans in the Senate to make the repeal of the estate tax permanent failed, but will likely be brought back as a campaign issue.
