Uncle Sam seems to be gearing up to take more tax dollars from Mitt Romney and his brothers in the private-equity fraternity. The Internal Revenue ...
Paul Abrams | Posted 04.20.2012
To release his 2010 and 2009 returns would raise the real possibility that he committed voter fraud. And, we all know how deeply concerned Republicans are about voter fraud, don't we?
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- A tax dodge that millionaire hedge fund managers use to slash their income taxes could soon become a major election issue, as congressio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2012
Over at Business Insider, Linette Lopez catches 2012 presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on CNBC, sending messages on one of his favorite tax-breaks-for...
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.05.2012
How much did private equity chief Stephen Schwarzman make last year? Depends who you ask. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported that S...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.01.2012
WASHINGTON -- One thing's for certain about most of the biggest donors bankrolling the main pro-Mitt Romney super PAC: They are canny investors. Pr...
The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 02.22.2012
Part of the tax proposal announced by the Obama administration on Wednesday would shut down a controversial loophole that allows hedge fund managers a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.08.2012
WASHINGTON -- In a Jan. 23 debate in Tampa, Fla., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney directed a pointed attack at former Speaker of the House Newt ...
Craig Crawford | Posted 03.14.2012
Romney now says big government is anti-American but he wasn't shy about feeding on the federal trough when he got the chance. As a self-described "c...
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 11.20.2011
Carried interest is not now and it never will be deserving of being taxed as a capital gain, since there is no risk to the money manager and only upside potential.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- During the first three months of 2011 employees of JPMorgan Chase piled in campaign contributions to the campaign committee of Sen. Mark...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE, Oct. 13: SIGA Technologies announced Wednesday that a lucrative contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate will not approve a bill to reauthorize several expired domestic aid programs, including extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemplo...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
The solution to the current brouhaha over taxing "carried interest" -- the money that hedgies receive if they pick successful investments their partners -- is to correlate capital gains preferred rates to job creation.
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.25.2011
It's not about "belly up" as Senator Hatch suggests. It's about "pony up" and our nation's need to make tax laws more even-handed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The Democratic effort to raise revenue for a jobs bill by closing a tax loophole that benefits money managers is running into opposition within the pa...
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.25.2012