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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Its the time of year when investors examine their portfolio and seek to harvest built-in tax losses. But short sellers who wish to harvest their losses should keep a close eye on the calendar.
December 23 -
The IRS has not established a service-wide approach to managing effective authentication processes and procedures for individual taxpayers identities, according to a new report.
December 22 -
With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.
December 17 -
The Tax Court has decided that media mogul Sumner Redstones 1972 transfer of stock to a trust set up for his two children was a taxable gift, but declined to impose a penalty for fraud, negligence, or failure to timely file.
December 16 -
In July my column for this space asked whether it was too early to start thinking about tax extenders. Now, the question might better be phrased whether it is too late.
December 10 -
As U.S. private companies go, so goes the nation, according to Ken Esch, Private Company Services partner at PwC.
December 3 -
A host of tax tips for the approaching year-end.
December 1 -
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of cases involving two former NFL players hit by Clevelands jock tax, which was imposed on visiting athletes according to a games played allocation.
November 25 -
Vetting the candidates tax positions so far
November 23 -
IRS budget woes are the top priorities for Andy Mattson, recently appointed AICPA committee chair of the IRS Advocacy & Relations Committee.
November 19