While Washington bickers over whether to raise taxes on the rich, the truth is, taxes on the richest Americans are already at their highest in decades.
While Washington bickers over whether to raise taxes on the rich, the truth is, taxes on the richest Americans are already at their highest in decades.
New York State's coffers are up $1.6 billion over last year, but the increase is due mostly to the wealthy shifting income into 2012 to avoid higher 2013 taxes.
Virtually every state's tax system unfairly takes from those who make the least, says a new report. But which states take the most from their richest residents?
After California hiked taxes on its top earners, the state's multi-billion-dollar deficit is gone. But experts say the tax on the rich isn't, and won't ever prove, the boon to the economy that Democrats hope.
French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac, who has spent months singling out tax dodgers, is ensnared in allegations that he transferred money from a Swiss account into one in Singapore.
In one of the largest such prosecutions in years, a Florida woman pleaded guilty to two charges of filing false tax returns that failed to report her UBS accounts.
French actor Gerard Depardieu's flirtation with moving to Russia to escape tax hikes obscures the broader fact that wealthy Russians are fleeing their country.
Professionals, like doctors and lawyers and anyone else who might be sued, should work with an adviser to keep creditors from cleaning them out if they lose in court
Australian mining heiress Gina Rinehart is making news over a column she wrote where she said "if you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," among other things. CNBC's Robert Frank has the details.