Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert.

The main exception is interest paid by municipal ... you're invested but don't play an active role) and certain other types of tax-sheltered investment vehicles. The biggest distinction you ...

New types of taxes that help simplify the tax code may be ahead in the next three years of the administration, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says. Asked in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State ...