Practice Management

The American Institute of CPAs is pushing for legislation that would make it easier for employees who work across state lines to do their taxes.

The London-based International Valuation Standards Council is asking for input on some of its new standards for performing valuations on financial instruments, real estate and intangibles.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Thursday on proposals to limit tax breaks for employers who provide health care for employees.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen defended the IRS’s cybersecurity efforts during a contentious congressional hearing Thursday on the IRS’s ability to protect taxpayer systems.

National tax preparation chains are exploiting the working poor by forcing them to spend a significant portion of the Earned Income Tax Credit just to pay for filing their taxes, according to a new report, and H&R Block is firing back.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has introduced legislation, co-sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, that would require the Internal Revenue Service to develop a free, online tax preparation and filing service that taxpayers could use to prepare and file their taxes directly with the federal government.

The tax benefits of home ownership, which generations of U.S. residents have counted on, have been elusive for typical buyers since mortgage rates started tumbling in 2008, according to an analysis by John Burns Real Estate Consulting LLC.

With rampant fraud draining as much as $6 billion a year away from U.S. taxpayers, technology vendors are competing for billions themselves, selling software that helps governments identify the cheats.

Thomson Reuters is building bridges with NetSuite and other vendors’ enterprise resource planning software, tying its sales tax technology to theirs.

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.”