Tax practice

Taxpayers are not doing enough to protect themselves from identity theft-related tax fraud and a majority of them don’t expect it to happen to them, according to a new survey.

The Treasury Department has issued a newly revised U.S. Model Income Tax Convention to provide the baseline text it will use when negotiating tax treaties with other countries. It was last updated in 2006.

Tax preparation is a very serious undertaking that needs to be managed and continuously improved.

Google saved $2.4 billion in worldwide taxes in 2014 by shifting 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) in international revenues to a Bermuda shell company, Alphabet Inc., the parent of the Web-search provider, regulatory filings show.

The annual battle of tax preparers is nasty, brutish, and short. TurboTax, which dominates online filing, and H&R Block Inc., with 10,000 U.S. locations, have three months to win over taxpayers before this year's April 18 deadline.

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 has been unable to get control of rampant identity theft this tax season, despite high-profile efforts to confront the problem with the help of private industry.

The 12 most egregious tax scams of the year

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s tax proposals, which include cutting taxes for most individuals and replacing the corporate income tax with a flat 16 percent business tax, would reduce federal revenue by $8.6 trillion over a decade and “almost surely depress the economy over the long run,” according to a policy study and its authors.

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

Tax season may not be the easiest time for preparers to develop new business, but it may be the best time, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax.

Millennials are more fearful of filing taxes than most Americans, according to a new survey.

A lawsuit over the Internal Revenue Service’s fees for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers has received class-action status, according to an attorney who has been trying to eliminate or reduce the PTIN fee for over four years.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to fix a security vulnerability that makes it all too easy to get an Electronic Filing PIN used by tax preparers.

The Internal Revenue Service warned Thursday it has seen a fourfold surge this tax season in email phishing and malware incidents, targeting consumers and the tax industry.

A federal court in Chicago has ordered Servicios Latinos Inc. to close its nationwide tax preparation business.

The IRS urged tax professionals in an email Wednesday to verify their Electronic Filing Identification Number activity to safeguard against tax fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun conducting on-site inspections of tax preparers who continue to have problems with verifying their clients’ eligibility for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, and warned that the penalty has increased.

While some farms may raise cattle, poultry or fish and others grow fruits or vegetables, all will report their farm income on Schedule F, Profit or Loss from Farming. If your clients own a farm or ranch, here are 10 tax tips from the IRS.