Roger Russell is a senior editor at Accounting Today. He focuses on tax developments and compliance, and professional liability issues affecting CPAs. He is a tax attorney and has been a researcher and analyst at several major tax publishing companies.
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Nik Lamas-Richie started a gossip blog on a website in 2007, originally posting gossip about the cool kids in Scottsdale who thought they were celebrities.
April 13 -
Among the issues that are keeping tax executives up at night are anti-inversion rules that dont address the root cause: an anti-competitive U.S. tax system.
April 7 -
Accounting firms come across noncompete agreements in several different contexts: in the valuation of a company when purchased by a client, in divorce litigation and as part of the employment agreement in the accounting firm itself.
March 31 -
Closing out a season marked by less drama, and the usual hurdles
March 25 -
Managing your position in the middle of warring spouses
March 24 -
While it has been around in a variety of forms since 1993, the exclusion for Qualified Small Business Stock Gains under section 1202 of the Tax Code didnt really come into its own as a tax benefit until the exclusion rate increased to 100 percent in 2010.
March 24 -
Most taxpayers have at least a vague understanding of the principle that gifts do not constitute taxable income, while payments for services are taxable. Unfortunately for exotic dancer and professional adult entertainer Veronica Fairchild, there is no middle ground which would allow her to include in income some of the money she received from a client as payment for her services, while she characterized the bulk of what she received as gifts.
March 22 -
Democratic Presidential hopeful and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has urged the Treasury to block Pfizers planned corporate inversion.
March 21 -
Although a recent ABC News/Washington Post Poll found just 6 percent of voters who lean Republican and 4 percent of those who lean Democrat rank taxes as the most important issue impacting their vote, one in five public company tax directors feel differently.
March 17 -
With a 400 percent surge in reported phone and email phishing and malware schemes this tax season, the American Institute of CPAs is working with Congress, the Internal Revenue Service and its members to combat tax-related identity theft and tax return fraud.
March 16