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Readers offer ideas for tax reform but doubt it will happen.

A former tax lawyer calls for eliminating the Bush tax cuts for all and ending most tax breaks. Readers are invited to respond.

Andrew Ross Sorkin DealBook column observes that throughout the weekend at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, known as Woodstock for Capitalists, there was a consistent whisper among some investors about chairman Warren Buffett's outspokenness; points out his so-called Buffett Rule, which seeks to raise the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans, appeared to reduce his popularity among some shareholders. Photo

Senator Scott P. Brown and Elizabeth Warren, the two main candidates in the Massachusetts Senate race, are much wealthier than most of the average voters they are courting.

For all their differences, Europe's elites perhaps share a challenge: not being deaf to a sense among voters that there is austerity at the bottom but not the top.

Caucus column; Obama administration harshly criticizes R Glenn Hubbard, adviser to Mitt Romney who asserted that the president's economic plans would mean a huge tax increase for all Americans; contend that figures used in Hubbard's analysis are deeply flawed. (M)0

Caucus column; Republican Sen Scott P Brown of Massachusetts says he will release tax returns for the last six years and challenges Elizabeth Warren, his presumed Democratic opponent, to do the same; candidates have been sparring over tax policy. (M)h

The producer and director Lee Storey won her case last week against the commissioner of Internal Revenue in United States Tax Court.

A reporter’s income in 2011 was higher than it was in 2010. Yet his tax rate went down. Wasn’t the opposite supposed to happen?

Votes on taxes after a class-conscious debate highlighted the gulf between the parties as an election looms and the sluggish recovery drags on.

A Russian citizen living in Brooklyn was indicted on charges of using a Web site to steal applicants’ data in order to file bogus tax returns and collect refunds.

Tax documents show that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who shares a Westchester County home with his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, no longer pays a personal income tax in New York City.

Rise in fatal car accidents on April 15th, the day income tax returns are due, may be related to stress and distraction. (M)¿

The Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn said she paid $1.7 million in back taxes.

Research by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, two French economists known simply as Piketty-Saez in Washington, has provided the subtext to the battle over tax fairness.

The earned income tax credit returns billions of dollars to low-income working Americans with a one-time refund that can amount to 40 percent of annual income for some families.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, wants to restore New York City’s commuter tax to help stabilize the region’s mass transit network.

Republican opposition ensured that a measure pressed by President Obama and Senate Democrats to raise effective tax rates for the superrich would not come to a decisive vote.

A new form requires taxpayers to provide detailed information on their overseas financial accounts, including income derived from them.

If the Fair Share tax became law, it would not live up to its name.