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Democratic presidential front-runners largely agree on their first tax priority: Scrap the TCJA and institute new levies to pay for social programs.

The White House is developing a plan to cut taxes by indexing capital gains to inflation, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would largely benefit the wealthy and may be done in a way that bypasses Congress.

Officials at the Internal Revenue Service are looking to hire more employees to handle tax enforcement, compliance and administration of the tax code.

The timeline is fluid, however, and could stretch on for months.

If staff do not grow, then the owners cannot grow.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will propose canceling the nation’s outstanding $1.6 trillion of student debt and offsetting the cost with a tax on Wall Street transactions.

A U.S. House committee approved a package of bills that provide tax breaks for a variety of select industries and constituencies, kicking off what’s likely to be a protracted negotiation with Senate Republicans over whether and how to pay for them.

The chief pointed to his own history as a tax attorney, while reminding tax pros that the IRS is watching from the compliance and enforcement side.

The standard-setter plans to offer accounting relief to companies that need to modify their contracts as banks move the global reference rates for loans and more.

It’s official: Paying taxes can make you a stressed-out wreck.

Democratic presidential candidates like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have talked about repealing the GOP’s tax overhaul. Yet a large-scale rollback is unlikely. Instead, two other forces could slowly unravel the law — Democrats currently in power in the House and President Donald Trump’s trade policies.

Americans gave less money to charities last year partly because the Republican tax law changes made many people ineligible for tax breaks that can inspire donations.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering giving privately held companies and not-for-profit organizations an extra two years to implement standards.

Many businesses have an annual Bring Your Kid to Work day and so does Withum.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the firm with changing some of its previous audit work and manipulating results of its internal training tests.

If liberal and conservative advocacy groups can agree on anything, it’s this: A suite of more than three dozen or so corporate tax breaks that have expired over the past two years should stay dead.

The Senate passed the far-reaching package only days after it passed the House for the second time, sending it to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been fighting a new cap on state and local tax deductions ever since it was included in the 2017 Republican tax overhaul.

The House voted for a second time to approve bipartisan legislation to overhaul key aspects of the way the IRS operates, but without a controversial provision.

The president’s personal lawyers told the court it must reverse a judge’s ruling allowing the House Oversight and Reform Committee to subpoena financial records from his accounting firm.