Practice and client management

Venture investors, facing the possibility of bigger tax bills, are trying to convince Washington that they’re special and should be exempt.

Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign said Monday that Republican Donald Trump’s proposals to overhaul the federal tax system would benefit “high-debt investors like himself,” opening a new line of attack.

Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee are asking the Treasury Department to go back to the drawing board on proposed regulations for changing the tax treatment of corporate debt and equity to curb corporate earnings stripping.

The Internal Revenue Service has created a new webpage with information to help people who participate in the so-called “sharing economy” get timely tax advice.

I attend Management of Accounting Practice (MAP) CPE programs. In many instances these do not qualify toward the mandatory CPE requirements. Who cares?

Restaurateur Rowen Seibel has made the gossip pages for getting socked by Diane von Furstenburg’s son and multimillion-dollar court fights he’s waging with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

Jeff Bezos’s relentless focus on user experience has helped him make Amazon the most valuable e-commerce company in the world. But regulators in Europe and the U.S. say that the value Amazon places on the technology behind that experience varies radically depending on which side of the Atlantic it’s on—and which appraisal will lower its tax bill.

H&R Block may be looking to sell soon, according to recent published reports.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Gwen Jorgensen, a former tax accountant at Ernst & Young, won the gold medal on Saturday at the Triathlon in the Rio Olympic games.

The IRS has proposed higher user fees for taxpayers who enter into installment agreements.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

The Internal Revenue Service’s Chief Counsel has released its annual Priority Guidance Plan for 2016 to 2017.

Less than half of filings for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act have been accurate, according to a new survey.

There are plenty of reasons to get married. Your taxes may not be one of them.

Restaurateur Rowen Seibel has made the gossip pages for getting socked by Diane von Furstenburg’s son and multimillion-dollar court fights he’s waging with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly hit reality TV star and actress NeNe Leakes with a tax lien for $824,366.01 in unpaid taxes from 2014, and she good-humoredly tweeted a photo of herself running to the IRS tax office from her hotel.

Although the tax positions of the two major candidates would face major hurdles before either one becomes law, interested observers have wasted no time in dissecting them, praising them or pointing out defects.

Telephone scammers may target students and parents during the back-to-school season and demand payments for such non-existent taxes as the “Federal Student Tax,” the IRS has warned.