Practice Management

I spend a lot of time with clients and I believe I have identified the one quality that most of my successful clients have—it is obsession.

The Internal Revenue Service has released its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, cautioning taxpayers to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from identity theft to tax return preparer fraud this tax season.

Participants in the Internal Revenue Service’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program were more likely to disclose foreign bank accounts from Switzerland than other countries, according to a new government report.

General Electric Co. sued the Internal Revenue Service seeking a $658 million refund for overpaid federal taxes and interest tied to losses it claimed from the sale of ERC Life Reinsurance.

Accounting firm HSMC Orizon has boosted its health care technology services by acquiring Blue Wave IT, a local IT practice.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a Transfer Pricing Audit Roadmap to help the transfer pricing specialists in its Large Business & International division successfully audit the tax strategies of multinational companies.

Now that clients have access to their transcripts online, tax preparers need to be prepared to answer these six questions.

A proposed Swiss-German tax accord is dead and buried amid growing public opposition in Germany to any agreement that’s seen as too easy on evaders, senior members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition said.

Some Internal Revenue Service executives have incorrectly classified their travel as non-taxable, even though the IRS has written guidance and procedures to inform the agency’s senior executives and managers when their overnight long-term travel reimbursements are subject to employment taxes, according to a new government report.

A chiropractor has been arrested for attempting to bribe an Internal Revenue Service auditor who questioned deductions the chiropractor had claimed for payments to two female patients who had accused him of inappropriately touching them.