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A group of advocacy organizations is urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to require multinational companies to disclose more information about their taxes.

The Wildenstein family of art dealers sold more than 600 pieces since the turn of the century, generating around $300 million in cash to fund their lifestyle, and has works worth nearly three times that much in storage, according to a banker who has intricate financial knowledge of the clan’s dealings.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Although I live a few miles from Hofstra University, the site of Monday night’s Presidential debate, I didn’t have a ticket to the event. Instead, I spent the time trying to get to the Marriott next door, where viewers were promised the chance to meet one of the candidates afterward.

The Tax Foundation has released its annual ranking of states and how competitive their business tax codes are.

A group of 41 Senate Republicans is urging the Treasury Department to drop proposed regulations that would eliminate a popular tax strategy for minimizing estate and gift taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has released new procedures that help a taxpayer make the decision on whether to opt for a qualified terminable interest property election to reduce estate taxes.

The very rich are different from you and me. They even have their own IRS audit squad.

This U.S. presidential campaign, and particularly that of Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, moved the issue of income inequality front and center. Now there are some new numbers in that department, and they won’t make many people happy.