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The Internal Revenue Service has modified a policy it instituted earlier this year on not providing letter rulings or determination letters on certain tax questions related to distributions of stock of controlled corporations and will now provide them in two specific areas.

The Internal Revenue Service has released new guidance for taxpayers making certain elections and filing amended returns to take advantage of the tax extenders in last December’s PATH Act for bonus depreciation.

U.S. House conservatives are set to re-launch next month their effort to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, with or without Speaker Paul Ryan’s go-ahead.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

7 questions to help protect your business clients

There’s probably no one “right” time for tax preparers to start a newsletter, but the end of summer might be an optimum time. Vacation memories are beginning to fade, and people are gearing up to get back into the real world of work, busy schedules and tax.

The Affordable Care Act has new surprises this year that can trip up employers and their advisors, experts warn.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are providing new guidance on the requirements for professional employer organizations seeking voluntary certification, relaxing some of the original requirements for submitting written opinions and attestations from CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering a safe harbor for businesses using property that has been financed with tax-exempt bonds.

When the European Union pressured Switzerland to scrap tax breaks for foreign companies, Geneva had the most to lose. Now, the canton that’s home to almost 1,000 multinationals is set to use tax to burnish its appeal.

Jacob J. Lew looks set to close out his tenure as one of just two Treasury secretaries to serve during the Obama administration. Not since the days of Eisenhower has a two-term U.S. president had such stability at the helm of the Treasury Department.

The U.S. is stepping up its effort to convince the European Commission to refrain from hitting Apple Inc. and other companies with demands for possibly billions of euros in underpaid taxes.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued last October the final Base Erosion and Profit Shifting reports that are expected to fundamentally change the course of international taxation and transfer pricing for all multinational enterprises.

The Internal Revenue Service unveiled a new procedure Wednesday to help people who accidentally miss the 60-day time limit for rolling over their retirement plan distributions into another qualified retirement plan or individual retirement account.

The CPA Consultants’ Alliance has appointed Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk of bbr marketing as the group’s new Marketing Chair and Carrie Steffen of the Whetstone Group as the new Deliverables Chair.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has posted responses from the Internal Revenue Service to her recommendations for improving taxpayer service, along with papers delivered by presenters at an international conference her office convened last November on taxpayer rights.

For years, the biggest nations have tried to outsmart tax dodgers and reclaim trillions of dollars stashed in offshore accounts. Many of them are tired of waiting and now just want to make peace and bring some of the money back home.

Republican Donald Trump is proposing a big tax cut for companies like Apple Inc., which would see its tax rate slashed on about $200 billion of profit it keeps offshore.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out proposals to streamline financing and taxes for entrepreneurs and small businesses while telling business owners that Republican Donald Trump would put his interests ahead of their own.

Most people have never heard of the alternative minimum tax, and those that have probably would love to forget about it and wish that it would just go away.