Practice Management

The IRS has excluded pay-for-performance success payments made under the federal government’s new Home Affordable Modification Program from counting as income.

Victims of recent storms in Alabama and Missouri and wildfires in Oklahoma may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

A UBS client and chartered accountant has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for his 2004 taxes in the latest sign of the IRS’s stepped-up enforcement efforts against the Swiss bank’s U.S. customers.

Accounting firm Plante & Moran plans to merge with Jackson, Rolfes, Spurgeon & Co., extending Michigan-based Plante to the Cincinnati market.

A new analysis by a former high-ranking IRS official explains how the Tax Code’s corporate reorganization provisions afford tax-free treatment to certain corporate combinations and realignments.

The IRS often fails to send notices of federal tax liens to taxpayer representatives such as accountants, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for filing a report on foreign bank accounts to Sept. 23 from the original June 30 deadline as it seeks to crack down on offshore tax havens.

Tennessee-based accounting firm KraftCPAs has created a new affiliate company that will specialize in health care consulting services as Congress prepares legislation to overhaul the health insurance industry.

The IRS has not been doing an adequate job of overseeing the acceptance agents who assign Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to foreign nationals, increasing the risk of tax fraud.

Typical end-of-year tax planning will be on everyone’s minds before you know it.