Tax practice

Tax-related interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning October 1, according to the IRS.

Be careful when you grab that office bagel. The Internal Revenue Service may be watching.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington will rehear a case on Obamacare tax subsidies, granting a government request in a move that may reduce chances of a new Supreme Court showdown over a central part of the law.

A tax preparer who specializes in helping immigrants has pleaded guilty to willfully preparing false tax returns for clients.

An Internal Revenue Service employee who prepared tax returns on the side has been arrested on wire fraud charges in Florida.

As we approach the November elections, the end of the year and the beginning of a new tax season, we’re not much clearer on the fate of the provisions that expired at the end of 2013, aka the extenders, that haven’t yet been renewed.

The Internal Revenue Service intends to process complaints against tax preparers from their clients in a more timely way, in response to a new government report that found it had begun work on only about half the complaints it received since October 2012.

Daniel Schwartz, chief executive officer of Burger King Worldwide Inc., said last week he doesn’t expect “meaningful tax savings” when the company adopts a new legal address in Canada through the purchase of a doughnut chain there.

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

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have released their Priority Guidance Plan for 2014 to 2015, including the treatment of employer-provided meals.

While the effort to pass federal legislation governing sales and use taxes on online purchases appears to have stalled, some states have begun their own initiatives to require online merchants to collect and remit taxes from e-commerce customers across state lines.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the summer 2014 edition of its quarterly Statistics of Income Bulletin, providing data on foreign controlled domestic corporations and municipal bonds from tax year 2011.

Two years after a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court saved a core part of Obamacare, opponents are trying to topple the measure again, this time using a four-word phrase in the law.

Tax lawyer Robert Wellen’s telephone keeps ringing with calls from hedge-fund executives he’s never met.

A roundup of tax news from the previous month

Regulations open availability of longevity annuity contracts

The profession speaks out in favor of cash accounting

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice warning businesses not to get caught in backup withholding if the name and taxpayer identification number submitted on a Form 1099-K doesn’t match the IRS’s other records.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a set of long-delayed draft instructions for the forms that companies need to file to comply with the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act.