Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, taking control of a nation wracked by a deadly pandemic, persistent unemployment and burgeoning social unrest to cap the most acrimonious transfer of power in modern American history.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to do more than just temporarily levy a surcharge on the state’s wealthiest residents and freeze promised middle-class tax cuts to remedy a looming budget crisis caused by the coronavirus.

California would fund housing construction and local services to address homelessness with tax increases aimed at large, multinational corporations under a newly amended bill.

Even the world’s most egalitarian region is grappling with a rising gap between rich and poor.

Business interests are pushing hard on Nebraska, in the Capitol and the courts, to amend its tax code and abandon strategies taxing the offshore earnings of multinational corporations.

The European Union’s competition authority got another boost in its court fight with Spanish companies, including Banco Santander SA, over a decision forcing them to pay back millions of euros in tax breaks for the acquisition of stakes in foreign companies.

Aruna Kalyanam, a senior Democratic staffer in the House Ways and Means Committee, is headed to the Treasury Department.

Any business-level tax that New York enacts to help individuals avoid the federal limit on state and local deductions should apply to both partnerships and S corporations, in line with such taxes in states that include New Jersey and Wisconsin, the New York State Bar Association’s tax section says.

New Jersey’s major tax revenue rose 44.8% in December from a year earlier primarily due to the new pass-through business alternative income tax, which was established last January to provide relief to state taxpayers negatively impacted by the cap on the federal deduction for state and local levies.