Practice Management

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a set of tips to help with foreign tax credit compliance.

The old adage that there are two sides to every story remains true today especially as it pertains to accountants.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to fix a glitch that was discovered with its system for automatically issuing tax levies that allow it to seize the assets of delinquent taxpayers.

An Omaha man has been sentenced to three years’ probation after dumping dirt from a front-end loader truck at the feet of Internal Revenue Service officers who were trying to seize his boss’s dump truck.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers in Congress announced they are introducing legislation to curb gun violence by increasing federal taxes on firearms and ammunition.

The Internal Revenue Service has chosen John Dalrymple, a former executive with the tax agency, for its No. 2 job, a position where he will oversee audits, the annual tax filing season and the tax-exempt organizations office that led to controversy this year.

The new fraud detection system that the IRS has been developing since the beginning of 2012 needs some more work to make sure that it is successfully deployed and implemented.

Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md., a member of the Senate Finance Committee, has written to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, urging them to quickly resolve and clarify the tax implications for legally married same-sex couples and those in civil unions.

(Bloomberg) The lessons of the last big revision to the Tax Code in 1986 show it’s going to be harder to get things done this time.

The IRS issued proposed regulations on Friday that provide guidance on the tax credit available to certain small employers that offer health insurance coverage to their employees under Code Section 45R, enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.