Tax Planning
Help clients do planning for next tax season and find out information here about how corporate clients are using transfer pricing, tax deferral and sophisticated tax strategies to lower their tax bills. Also find out the latest proposals from Congress and the White House on tax policies and tax cuts.
Charities Concerned about Congresss Tax Reform Proposals
A coalition of charitable organizations is calling on Congress to protect the charitable deduction as leaders of Congresss tax-writing committees step up their efforts to forge comprehensive tax reform. Read more »
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Democrats Reject Republican Fiscal Cliff Plan as McConnell Calls Biden
December 30, 2012Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected the latest Republican offer to resolve the U.S. fiscal... Read more »
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Obama Summons Congressional Leaders to Meet as Fiscal Cliff Nears
December 28, 2012President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to a White House meeting three days before... Read more »
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Expiring and Expired Tax Breaks
December 27, 2012Some of the most notable tax breaks that are on the endangered list. Read more »
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Taxpayers Face Fiscal Cliff unless Washington Agrees on Deal
December 27, 2012Congress is scheduled to return Thursday, with one of its top priorities a deal to avert the... Read more »
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Senate Pushed into Tax Fight as Congress Faces Deadline
December 27, 2012Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader who has stayed largely outside the U.S. budget fight... Read more »
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IRS Warns Congress Tax Season Might Be Delayed until March or Later without AMT Patch
December 19, 2012IRS Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller warned Congress on Wednesday that if lawmakers fail to... Read more »
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5 Tax Benefits for Small Businesses before New Year
December 19, 2012Payroll service provider Paychex has provided a list of five tax benefits that small businesses,... Read more »
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CCH Offers Fiscal Cliff Estimator for Tax Planning
December 19, 2012CCH has introduced a new tax planning tool to help tax advisors and their clients keep a step... Read more »
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Business Owners Worried about Fiscal Cliff
December 19, 2012More than half of accountants are seeing their business owner clients making changes in their... Read more »
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Congressmen Introduce Bill to End Tax Penalty for Personal Holding Companies
December 19, 2012A pair of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House to end a 78-year-old tax... Read more »
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Boehner to Introduce Plan B Solution to Fiscal Cliff, Raising Taxes on Millionaires
December 18, 2012Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that House Republicans would introduce a... Read more »
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Obama Concessions Signal Potential Bipartisan Tax Rate and Budget Deal
December 18, 2012President Barack Obama lowered his tax revenue demand by $200 billion and offered to start tax... Read more »
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Boehner Offers Obama Tax Rate Increase Deal for Entitlement Cuts
December 17, 2012House Speaker John Boehner offered to raise income tax rates on households earning more than $1... Read more »
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Small Business Leaders Urge Closing of Corporate Tax Haven Loopholes
December 14, 2012Hundreds of business leaders who are part of a trio of advocacy groups have signed a letter... Read more »
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Tax Season by the Numbers
May 22, 2013
The IRS recently released statistics covering the year to May 10, 2013.
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The AICPA's annual list of IT priorities for accounting firms.
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