Tax practice

Back in May 2013, I wrote an article for Accounting Today, “Taxing Times for the Restaurant Industry.” References to it popped up in a few blogs and law firm websites shortly thereafter, so it appears someone was reading! In that article, I spoke about Form 1099-K, the IRS-mandated procedure for reports issued by credit card companies to taxpayers that accept credit cards for payment.

The Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that customers on the federal marketplace authorized by the health-care overhaul are ineligible for subsidies to buy insurance.

Organic growth of a practice is one path to success – but inking the dotted line can sometimes seem a lot faster.

A Staten Island, N.Y., woman has admitted to playing a role in one of the largest and longest-running stolen identity tax refund fraud schemes ever identified.

Senate Republicans blocked a final vote Wednesday on a bill aimed at preventing tax breaks for companies that relocate abroad.

Swiss banks will on the whole meet the deadline for delivering information on offshore accounts to the U.S., improving their chances of settling with the Justice Department this year.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have introduced bipartisan legislation to improve protection for taxpayers against fraudulent tax refund claims made with stolen identities.

Taking advantage of low AFRs before they're gone

A roundup of recent tax news

The shifting state of the IRS's voluntary disclosure program

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public policy group that advocates for free markets and limited government, said Thursday its attorneys have petitioned the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling last week that upheld an Internal Revenue Service regulation allowing premium tax credits for health insurance purchased on a federal exchange.

A number of groups testified or submitted statements recently at a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access titled “Cash Accounting: a Simpler Method for Small Firms?”

Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen is putting his hopes in the IRS’s recently introduced Form 1023-EZ, which is intended to expedite applications by small charities for tax-exempt status facing a long backlog.

A bill requiring government agencies to disclose how much companies would be able to claim in tax credits and other benefits when they reach settlements with enforcement agencies has passed a key committee.

A group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced legislation designed to prohibit federal contracts to multinational companies that use corporate inversions to cut their tax rates.

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is hoping to lift the veil on the use of anonymous companies for financial transactions by forcing financial firms to disclose and verify the identities of the actual people, or “beneficial owners,” behind the transactions.

Getting a foreign address isn’t the only way American companies are skirting corporate income taxes.

Lois Lerner, the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit, referred to “crazies” and “---holes” in an email exchange uncovered by Republican lawmakers on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that 40 tax preparers across the state have been suspended by the state tax department under new regulations requiring them to file their own taxes.

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