Employee benefits

This handful of provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are worth immediate attention.

As we enter into the tax planning stage of the year, the focus shifts to helping clients understand the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and optimize their tax positions.

Tuition refunds, expanded uses for 529 funds, and rollovers are highlighted.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to strengthen its taxpayer authentication efforts to combat identity theft, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging practitioners to secure their client data.

The HR software company’s new vertical focus is the professional services industry.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure providing the 2019 inflation-adjusted amounts for HSAs and high deductible health plans.

Criminals who pretend to be working for the IRS are asking for bank information from international taxpayers and non-resident aliens.

The financial health of Magnolia Regional Health Center, a 200-bed public hospital in northern Mississippi, has gone from fair to serious condition all because of an accounting rule.

The Internal Revenue Service is granting relief to taxpayers who have family coverage under a high deductible health plan and who contribute to a health savings account.

The Internal Revenue Service recently reduced a user fee, modified its policy on issuing opinion and advisory letters, and changed the pre-approved program for cash balance plans.

As the country moves toward full employment, employers face the challenge of differentiating their business and job opportunities.

While most workplace injuries and illnesses are legitimate, occasionally employees try to manipulate the system by filing a false or exaggerated workers’ compensation insurance claim.

The tax-writing panel voted on a bipartisan basis to approve a set of bills to “redesign” the Internal Revenue Service.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee released legislation to ‘redesign’ the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the tax industry and state tax authorities issued a warning Monday about a wave of e-mails from cybercriminals purporting to come from “IRS Refunds.”

The Big Four firm announced a slew of employee benefits including reduced hours for new parents and $1K bonuses for all staff members.

The new authentication process that was installed after a big data breach still isn’t protecting taxpayer info.

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned practitioners to be on the alert for the re-emergence of a cybercriminal scam that is helping fuel a dramatic uptick in reports of stolen information from firms.

Sometimes the strategy can eliminate a domino effect of other expensive tax problems down the road, Ed Slott writes.