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Senators Rand Paul and Barbara Boxer are proposing a tax incentive for U.S. companies to bring home their offshore cash stockpiles and pledging to use that revenue to fund highways.

The best-laid estate plans just got muddled.

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have sent a letter to the Republican chairman, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, outlining their main principles for tax reform.

In the first Tax Court case that addressed the tax consequences of human egg donations, the court concluded that the compensation received by an egg donor for two donations of eggs was includible in her income.

The small business mentoring organization SCORE has compiled some new statistics demonstrating how much time and money small businesses spend each year on accounting, taxes and payroll administration.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous tax preparers, citing preparers as one of the most common “Dirty Dozen” tax scams seen during tax season.

As many as 6 million U.S. taxpayers will have to pay a penalty of as much as 1 percent of income because they went without health insurance in part or all of 2014, the Treasury Department said.

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

Like the advent of the Internet, social media has proliferated in everything we do.

An ongoing pilot program from the IRS is offering an Identify Protection Personal ID Number to taxpayers who filed federal returns last year in certain states.