Tax practice

Congressional stalling on tax reform, currency fluctuations and mixed signals from the Federal Reserve on an interest-rate hike are making strategic planning difficult for CFOs, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

A group of law firms has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of an estimated 330,000 taxpayers who were affected by a data breach in the IRS’s online Get Transcript application.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed tax liens totaling more than $4.5 million against the rapper T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, and his wife “Tiny,” singer-songwriter Tameka Cottle.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter Monday to four federal service centers asking for clarification on reporting practices for federal employees’ wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration and state tax agencies in order to safeguard against tax-related identity theft.

For a moment there, Donald Trump was starting to sound a lot like Bernie Sanders.

The Internal Revenue Service’s computer systems are failing to send some taxpayers notices of additional tax levies, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Appeals has the authority to abate certain taxpayer penalties when the abatement has been denied by other IRS offices, but a new report questions whether the office is providing enough justification for its decisions.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Employers and taxpayers now have access to recorded webinars from the IRS about the Affordable Care Act's provisions and related tax requirements.

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA Sales Tax Rates, a Web-based solution for up-to-the-minute sales and use tax rates.

Practitioners school Congress on tax complexity

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

The Boston Bruins hockey team is taking the Internal Revenue Service to court over its habit of deducting 100 percent of the cost of away-game meals.

The IRS is reminding truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that in most cases their next federal highway use tax return is due Monday, Aug. 31.

The Tax Court has held that the “unallocated alimony/child support payments” by a doctor to his ex-wife were non-taxable.

You may find your clients worried that their identities, their credit scores and maybe their life savings will wind up at the mercy of some free-spending crook. What can you tell them?

The IRS revealed today that approximately 220,000 more taxpayers than it had previously announced were affected by a breach in its “Get Transcript” Web app.

Bloomberg BNA has released a new edition of Unclaimed Property, its Tax Management Portfolio on escheatment and unclaimed property laws.

Victims of the mid-July severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides in parts of Kentucky may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

A roundup of some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.