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A Staten Island, N.Y., woman has admitted to playing a role in one of the largest and longest-running stolen identity tax refund fraud schemes ever identified.

Senate Republicans blocked a final vote Wednesday on a bill aimed at preventing tax breaks for companies that relocate abroad.

Swiss banks will on the whole meet the deadline for delivering information on offshore accounts to the U.S., improving their chances of settling with the Justice Department this year.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have introduced bipartisan legislation to improve protection for taxpayers against fraudulent tax refund claims made with stolen identities.

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The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public policy group that advocates for free markets and limited government, said Thursday its attorneys have petitioned the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling last week that upheld an Internal Revenue Service regulation allowing premium tax credits for health insurance purchased on a federal exchange.

A number of groups testified or submitted statements recently at a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access titled “Cash Accounting: a Simpler Method for Small Firms?”

Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen is putting his hopes in the IRS’s recently introduced Form 1023-EZ, which is intended to expedite applications by small charities for tax-exempt status facing a long backlog.

SocialCPAs, a group that aims to help accounting professionals with social media, has re-launched its annual survey on social media use.

A bill requiring government agencies to disclose how much companies would be able to claim in tax credits and other benefits when they reach settlements with enforcement agencies has passed a key committee.

A group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced legislation designed to prohibit federal contracts to multinational companies that use corporate inversions to cut their tax rates.

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is hoping to lift the veil on the use of anonymous companies for financial transactions by forcing financial firms to disclose and verify the identities of the actual people, or “beneficial owners,” behind the transactions.

Getting a foreign address isn’t the only way American companies are skirting corporate income taxes.

The Big Four accounting firms are reportedly rebuilding their legal service practices, after abandoning much of that area over a decade ago in response to Sarbanes-Oxley restrictions.