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Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea has become the latest multinational company to be accused of dodging taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has again delayed the deadline for reporting the basis of property distributed from the estate of a decedent until March 31.

The recently appointed chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady, R-Texas, described some of his tax reform priorities in a speech Friday.

Are CPAs really afraid to talk about fees with their clients? That’s what Tom Wheelwright, founder of the accounting firm ProVision, thinks.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has reportedly fired off a letter to officials in the European Union complaining about recent tax investigations of U.S.-based multinationals like Apple, McDonald’s, Amazon and Starbucks.

The Senate has included a permanent ban on taxes for Internet service within a larger trade enforcement bill that was passed Thursday.

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

The Internal Revenue Service nearly doubled the amount of money it paid to tax whistleblowers last year and is taking steps to make the process move faster.

Accounting firm MBAF has merged in Rampell & Rampell, P.A., a firm based in Palm Beach, Fla., expanding MBAF’s presence in South Florida and adding more expertise in various specialties.

An Internal Revenue Service employee who worked for the Taxpayer Advocate Service, where her job was to help taxpayers resolve their identity theft problems, pleaded guilty to stealing identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme involving up to $1.5 million in fraudulent income tax returns.