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BDO USA said Friday it would add Stone Carlie & Company to its firm, expanding Chicago-based BDO into the St. Louis market and in the process becoming a firm with more than $1 billion in annual revenue after a string of recent mergers and acquisitions.

BB&T Corp.’s transaction with Barclays Plc to generate tax credits was “simply a money machine” with no economic purpose and can’t be used to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. tax rebates, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

Popular at times in the past, but perhaps out of favor more recently, QPRTs (Qualified Personal Residence Trusts) may be an idea whose time has returned.

The head of a Senate investigative subcommittee said he plans to look into problems with the health insurance marketplaces set up for the Affordable Care Act that forced many taxpayers to owe some of the tax credit money they had received for buying health insurance.

The owner of a business that provided notary and tax preparation services in Camden, N.J., has pleaded guilty to filing false personal tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department have decided to dismiss a case against a North Carolina small business owner from whom they had seized $107,000 in a controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture.

The “job creators” are fighting back on tax policy—against their Republican allies.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that 27 percent or $17.7 billion in Earned Income Tax Credit payments were issued improperly in fiscal year 2014, according to a new government report.

Nearly half of all states impose taxes on memberships in gyms, health clubs, athletic clubs and fitness clubs, while the rest either exempt memberships or don’t have state sales taxes at all, according to new research.

In a case that could have repercussions for the taxation of professional athletes, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a ruling that provoked a response citing the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate” scandal.