Employee benefits

Coming brackets; rising expatriations; meeting behavior and aftermaths; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service is strengthening the identity verification and sign-in process for its online self-help tools after a number of high-profile data breaches.

H&R Block adds employee benefits; REDW tax manager earns community service award; and more.

The service lifted the limit from $19,500 as part of its annual inflation adjustments.

KPMG U.S. chair and CEO Paul Knopp outlined a wide range of upgrades to employee benefits in a LinkedIn post.

Offering clients the option to work with a professional employer organization can help increase overall efficiency and profitability by offloading the key administrative tasks necessary to running a business.

Buyback fallacy; change proposed for quarterly taxes; solidifying client relationships; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The American Institute of CPAs has released a set of questions and answers to help auditors of benefit plan financial statements deal with this complex field and a revised standard.

The number of accounts with balances of at least $1 million grew 84% year over year, while the number of seven-figure IRAs jumped more than 64%.

The service is alerting practitioners about some of the warning signals of taxpayer identity theft.

Advisors share a tax trick that allows professionals to build seven-figure retirement plans.

Knowing which specific perks count as income can make all the difference to a company — and its employees.

Using RMDs to pay the taxes due on a rollover can ease the psychological pain of forking over money to the IRS.

Two companies are teaming up to allow clients to buy mining machines through an IRA.

New reports indicate 497 high-income taxpayers had over $150 million in their individual retirement accounts, and nearly 25,000 taxpayers had aggregate IRA account balances of $5 million or more.

A new TIGTA report warns, however, that many didn’t follow the rules and could face potential tax penalties.

The Internal Revenue Service posted new rules Friday for multiemployer qualified retirement plans that have run into funding problems and need extra financial help from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

To mark the start of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Big Four firm announced it is increasing its lifetime maximum for transgender-related health care coverage from $25,000 to $75,000, effective July 1.

Plans sold through brokers cost nearly three times as much as those sold directly; time-stressed parents can find it's worth it.

Pulling the costs directly out of clients’ IRAs can blunt the sting, but it shrinks the pot of tax-deferred retirement assets.