Tax practice

The PTIN system will be down for approximately two to three hours for necessary maintenance beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 21, as well as a few days over New Year's.

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 extends a number of important tax breaks, and makes many of them permanent.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes.

Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that extends a number of important tax provisions, and makes several of them permanent.

The IRS has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.

The House has approved tax extenders legislation that makes a number of the periodically expiring tax breaks into permanent features of the tax code.

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

A set of delays on Obamacare-related taxes in the new federal spending bill will give corporate earnings a modest boost but are unlikely to undo the law or produce significant changes in the health-care industry.

Wolters Kluwer has introduced two new learning certification programs for tax professionals.

Bloomberg BNA has released a federal tax guide for 2016.

The former tax preparer for Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, one of the stars of the MTV reality TV series “Jersey Shore,” and his brother, Marc Sorrentino, pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing fraudulent tax returns on their behalf.

The Tax Court has decided that media mogul Sumner Redstone’s 1972 transfer of stock to a trust set up for his two children was a taxable gift, but declined to impose a penalty for fraud, negligence, or failure to timely file.

A recent report from the Government Accountability office says that despite whistleblowers’ growing importance to IRS recoveries, the IRS’s whistleblower program remains seriously flawed.

Congressional leaders unveiled a wide-ranging deal on tax extenders, making some items permanent.

Congressional leaders unveiled a broad package of spending and tax legislation that would avert a U.S. government shutdown and lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.

Credit Agricole SA’s unit in Switzerland agreed to pay $99.2 million to avoid prosecution through a U.S. program that has secured almost $742 million in penalties from 64 Swiss banks that disclosed how they helped Americans evade taxes.

A New York tax preparer received a 12-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay $144,604.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after he was convicted of preparing false tax returns.

A new academic study pours cold water on the notion that companies that promote their social responsibility efforts are any better at paying their taxes than regular corporations.