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Mountain View is considering a business tax in which Google could pay up to $5.4 million a year.

Sixty percent of counties identified in the report are located in 20 states outside the areas in New York, New Jersey and California where the $10,000 cap has raised the strongest political objections.

The federal government ran a $214.3 billion surplus in April, the Treasury Department reported Thursday.

FINRA found that Gates Capital and three of its employees breached several MSRB rules, some related to role-switching from advisor to underwriter on the same transaction.

GAO says Congress should consider giving SEC penalty authority over issuers, stripping Puerto Rico's triple-tax exemption,and expanding investor protection.

The federal the clean water and drinking water state revolving funds remain woefully underfunded, ASCE President Kristina Swallow told lawmakers.

A muni advisor and his firm defrauded a school district in south Texas, lying to it to gain business and failing to disclose a conflict of interest.

The Government Finance Officers Association's new president does not see its top goals changing this year.

The Federal Reserve is close to meeting its dual mandate, and while he expects inflation to run higher than 2% for a while, it won’t cause the Fed to respond aggressively, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday.

April was a pretty good month for the municipal bond market following the 30% drop in first quarter issuance, said a market expert.