Practice Management

Many major tax changes go into effect this year for individual taxpayers.

An influential senator is asking the Internal Revenue Service to put a system in place to track the specific sources of unpaid corporate taxes.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is pressing the Internal Revenue Service in a new report to improve its procedures for direct debt installment agreements to avoid taxpayer defaults.

For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday evening that it recently identified and halted an automated attack upon its Electronic Filing PIN application on IRS.gov.

Ernst & Young has released the results of its latest survey with the Tax Council of tax executives and tax practitioners about their predictions for tax reform.

The Obama administration released its fiscal year 2017 budget containing a number of tax increases on high-income taxpayers, oil and foreign income, along with tax breaks for the middle class and small businesses, plus a provision giving the Treasury Department the explicit authority to regulate all paid tax preparers.

Progressive accounting firms seek consulting opportunities so their firms can take advantage of more lucrative advisory service offerings.

Some partners in hedge funds, private-equity firms and other businesses organized as so-called pass-throughs would pay a 3.8 percent income tax under President Barack Obama’s 2017 budget request.

A former Internal Revenue Service revenue agent is facing trial this week for soliciting and receiving a bribe from the owner of a Seattle marijuana dispensary.