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The Internal Revenue Service issued a ruling allowing a taxpayer to use a tax-advantaged flexible spending account to pay for the medical portion of an ancestry test.

Wages grew at an average rate of 4.0 percent over the past year, increasing the average wage level by $1.09 to $28.54 an hour in the second quarter of the year.

Ride-hailing customers may be forced to pay a new tax in the city where the disruptive industry got its start.

U.S. corporations brought back offshore profits in record numbers last year with nearly half of the repatriated funds coming from low-or-no-tax countries where companies had stashed cash prior to the 2017 tax law.

Scholarships and taxes; delay in ASU 842; landmark documentaries; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The creation of a Practitioner Services Division would make a big difference.

LinkedIn added a new feature Tuesday for freelancers and small businesses to market services such as accounting and tax preparation.

The Internal Revenue Service posted three revenue procedures Monday of special interest to the insurance industry.

My previous column, “Female staff are smarter than male staff,” drew a lot of comments and emails indicating considerable interest in this topic. Hence, this additional column.

Even as the profession as a whole is changing, Grant Thornton national managing partner of tax services Jamie Fowler shares how tax professionals need to prepare themselves to thrive in a new environment.

Accountants will benefit from this cutting-edge technology that is already being deployed on multiple fronts in the industry, and the number of applications will only increase.

The Trump administration hasn’t committed yet to index capital gains to inflation, even as White House officials continue to pursue the plan.

The level of confidence in global economic conditions dropped in the second quarter, especially in the U.S., according to a new survey by the ACCA and IMA.

In the short term, the judge and the government need a full accounting of Epstein’s wealth as part of the bail determination.

The U.S. and France agreed to push ahead with creating a global digital tax system at a Group of Seven meeting, papering over a feud on the matter that still has Washington dangling threats of tariffs.

Lawmakers overcame objections from Sen. Rand Paul who had held up the treaties over fears that they could jeopardize U.S. taxpayers’ privacy.

H&R Block acquired an accounting platform, Facebook got into cryptocurrency, and eight other developments in technology this past month.

High-deductible plans can now offer a number of new preventive care benefits.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to propose to delay some of its major accounting standards — including credit losses, leases, hedging and long-duration insurance contracts — for private companies, nonprofits and small reporting companies.

A French-U.S. clash over digital taxation overshadowed the start of a Group of Seven finance chiefs meeting as France refused to flinch on its levy that would hit tech giants.