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Last month an accountant called me with a serious problem he had with his staff. It seems his two top staff people were not keeping him informed of what they were doing and the status of their work.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is investigating whether President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation violated state tax laws, said a person familiar with the probe.

A closely divided Senate Finance Committee advanced the nominee for the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Charles Rettig, by a vote of 14 to 13, but he awaits a vote by the full Senate.

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.

Images of Paul Manafort’s multimillion-dollar houses and elegant suits, along with his tax filings, loan documents and summaries of money from foreign sources, will be displayed to jurors when he goes on trial this month.

Republicans are promising Tax Reform 2.0, but only a few measures may get approved.

President Vladimir Putin’s offer to help the U.S. investigate alleged Russian election meddling, hailed as an “incredible” gesture by Donald Trump, included the same allegations made by a Kremlin-linked lawyer at a controversial 2016 meeting with top campaign officials of the future president.

The Finance Committee is expected to approve Trump’s nomination of a tax attorney as the next head of the Internal Revenue Service.

Jeb Hensarling and Maxine Waters don’t agree on much but they reached a compromise on a plan for dialing back financial rules that passed the U.S. House Tuesday.

Many tax-exempt groups that participate in politics will no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department said.

Four Democratic-led northeastern states sued the Trump administration to invalidate the new $10,000 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes.

Many colleagues and clients get tangled in the daily merry-go-round that consumes much of their time while pushing aside creative, innovative and big picture thinking about their business, how they got there and where they are going.

It was supposed to be the best of times for the biggest U.S. banks: Rising interest rates and corporate tax cuts would boost profitability and spur lending, while deregulation lowered costs.

The new tax law allows for full and immediate write-offs through 2022.

Being available is essential for maintaining and strengthening relationships with clients…and everyone else you interact with professionally.

Peter Weitsen and I started our practice, MendlowitzWeitsen LLP, on July 1, 1988. My life has been enriched every moment of our partnership, which continues even now as part of WithumSmith+Brown, PC.

The draft version of the streamlined form tries to deliver on one of the promises of the tax simplification effort, but adds more schedules.

More entities can now qualify for the scaled-back rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Thursday to propose amendments to the rules surrounding its whistleblower program.

Charles Rettig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the IRS, omitted mention on a disclosure form that the two rental properties in Hawaii in which he has a stake are at a Trump-branded resort, according to a memo by the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.