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Iowa has filed charges against a California filmmaker who received film tax credits in a state program that has since been shut down.

President Barack Obama was blunt about his expectations for bipartisan support of his ambitious $447 billion job creation plan on Thursday, saying to Congress: "You should pass this right away." Repeatedly intoning, "pass this jobs bill," the president outlined a number of the proposal's details, saying companies would get a $4000 tax credit for ...

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High-tech data-tracking techniques are to be deployed in a new drive to clamp down on benefit and tax credit fraud costing the taxpayer 1.5 billion a year.

Sales of new single-family homes tumbled more than expected as the effects of a tax credit faded.

After several disastrous months for home sales, the pace appears to be picking up again.

President Barack Obama on Friday proposed $33 billion in tax credits to coax small businesses into hiring workers as he underscored his commitment to pushing job creation to the top of his agenda.

In this April 22, 2009 file photo, Lyle Rudensey holds a cup of refined homemade biodiesel that he made from used cooking oil in his garage in Seattle.

An industry study says biodiesel production could stop unless a federal $1-per-gallon tax credit is extended.

First-time buyers seized on a tax credit, combined with low mortgage rates and falling prices, to boost home sales in October to their highest level in 2 1/2 years.

Home resales for October are projected to rise to the highest level in more than two years as first-time buyers, anticipating that a tax credit would soon expire, rushed to beat the clock.