Naomi Jagoda

Industrial production rose 0.6% in February, the Federal Reserve reported Monday.

The federal government ran a $193.5 billion deficit in February, the Treasury reported Thursday.

A panel of experts presented to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday approaches that Congress could take with Internet sales tax legislation.

President Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposes making the rules for tax-exempt bonds issued by Indian tribal governments more similar to those for bonds issued by state and local governments.

More than 1,000 small business owners from across the country are urging House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. to act on the online sales tax issue.

The National League of Cities should concentrate on highlighting the importance of tax-exemption for municipal bonds, an official with the National Governors Association said Monday.

Consumer credit increased by $13.7 billion, or 5.3%, in January to $3.112 trillion, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said Wednesday that he appreciates President Obama's desire to overhaul the corporate tax code, but nonetheless is critical of the president's fiscal 2015 budget.

Democrats and Republicans could find common ground on business tax reform and infrastructure investment, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday.

President's Obama $3.9 trillion fiscal 2015 budget, released Tuesday, proposed capping the value of the tax exemption for municipal bond interest at 28%, which market participants complain would amount to an unprecedented tax on municipal bonds.

If the bond provisions in House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp's tax reform proposal are implemented, the municipal market could become "bifurcated," experts say.

A proposal to cut the basic allowance for housing for uniformed military personnel would negatively affect the quality of 54 ratings that Moody's Investors Service maintains relating to 24 privatized military housing projects, the rating agency said Monday.

Columbia, S.C. Mayor Steve Benjamin, new chair of Municipal Bonds for America, talked about the importance of tax-exempt bonds Tuesday in a meeting between White House officials and members of the National Conference of Black Mayors.

Fifteen percent of the 2014 state of the state speeches delivered before this week included bonds as a theme, according to a report from Loop Capital Markets.

Public pension plans should not be funded with instruments that bear risk or delay cash funding such as pension obligation bonds, a panel commissioned by the Society of Actuaries warned in a report released Monday

The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants is urging the chairmen and ranking minority members of the congressional tax-writing committees to make the deduction for state and local sales taxes permanent.

Maryland plans to sell up to $750 million of triple-A rated tax-exempt and taxable general obligation bonds in competitive bids on March 5, state officials said.

Existing home sales fell 5.1% to a seasonally adjusted 4.62 million-unit rate in January from an unrevised 4.87 million pace the previous month, the National Association of Realtors announced Friday.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp plans to release a "comprehensive discussion draft" of tax reform next week, the Michigan Republican said in a note to republican members of his committee.

Tax-exempt interest from public purpose state and local government bonds was estimated to be the fourth largest corporate tax expenditure in fiscal year 2013, according to a Congressional Research Service report that used data from the Joint Committee on Taxation.