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Tax savings drove the acquisition strategy of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and led to Burger King’s move to Canada, according to a U.S. Senate committee report.

The Internal Revenue Service is hampered by incomplete information from health insurance marketplaces in its efforts to oversee tax breaks for individuals in the Affordable Care Act, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s total tax debt inventory has increased 23 percent since 2009 to $380 billion, according to a new government report, while the agency’s collection staff has declined 23 percent after years of budget cuts.

House Ways and Means Committee members Charles Boustany, R-La., and Richard Neal, D-Mass., have released a bipartisan proposal to create a so-called “innovation box,” a lower tax rate on income derived from intellectual property to encourage more multinational companies to keep intangible assets in the U.S.

In a rebuke to the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax Court has invalidated regulations under Section 482 of the Tax Code that require the sharing of stock-based compensation.

Jim Metzler is as close to a crystal ball as you’ll get

Electronic payments and banking technology provider ACI Worldwide said the Internal Revenue Service has extended its relationship with the company’s OfficialPayments.com online bill payment service portal.

In the first two quarters of 2015, there were 207 sales and use tax rate changes, up from 159 in the first six months of 2014, according to a new report.

UBS AG and a banker-turned-whistleblower were deemed to have too “unclean hands” to bring a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a real-estate developer who had accused them of duping him into filing a false tax return.

Republicans in the U.S. House called for the firing of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, saying the man brought in to turn around the tax agency has lost their trust.

Additional victims of the early May’s severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding in parts of Texas may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

Tension between ACA credits and mandates continues after the King decision

When mid-market law firms need help, they turn to RBZ

Stanley Hochhauser passed away last Wednesday. He was a client that I worked with in my first job and became my client when my father passed away in 1976. Stanley was the last of my father’s clients and his passing also closed a link to my past. I am an accountant because of clients like Stanley.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations for filing a claim for credit or refund to provide guidance to taxpayers as to the proper place to file a claim for credit or refund.

Stephen A. Whitlock, the director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office, has been named director of the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility, effective Aug. 3, 2015.

Two of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Marvel Entertainment Group, the company behind the superhero comic books and hit movies, landed in Tax Court this week, and lost a battle against the Internal Revenue Service.

Hillary Clinton wants to raise capital gains taxes to encourage long-term investment, making it more expensive to sell stocks held for less than six years and adding complexity to the U.S. tax system.

The Internal Revenue Service has been scaling back its activities and using some of its budgeting flexibility to absorb funding cuts, according to a new government report.