Tax practice

A California tax preparer and bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to using the stolen identities of relatives and former clients to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.

Accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP has introduced an interactive online map that tracks the status of same-sex marriage in each of the 50 U.S. states and how such unions are treated for tax purposes.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that some taxpayers who are trying to e-file from Puerto Rico are unable to do so.

The Treasury Department has signed a bilateral agreement with Switzerland to share tax information in an effort to improve tax compliance and combat international tax evasion.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a report on its recently expanded whistleblower program which now offers higher awards, but the report indicated that the number of taxpayers coming forward to report tax fraud has declined in the past two years.

Intuit has introduced TurboTax CPA Select, an online system geared towards small businesses and consumers looking for someone to do their taxes for them.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is pointing to wide disparities in the low tax rates paid by many multinational corporations compared to the taxes paid by individuals and small businesses.

President Barack Obama called for tax reform as a way to temper drastic automatic budget cuts during his State of the Union address.

The Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board issued a warning to Congress that the IRS is operating in a high-risk environment, with budget constraints leading to lower staffing levels and reduce customer service for taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding electronic filers to review their IRS e-file application to make sure the information is still current.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. was prohibited by the U.S. Tax Court from claiming $199 million of foreign tax credits generated in a transaction arranged by Barclays Bank Plc and KPMG LLP.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning tax preparers about delays in processing tax returns claiming the Child Tax Credit because of incorrectly filled out forms.

A pair of influential Senate Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at stopping multinational corporations from taking advantage of tax havens abroad.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a class action that sought damages by class members as a result of the 2008 UBS tax evasion scandal.

Google Inc.’s planned litigation against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service centers on a domestic, not international, tax dispute, the company said.

A recent Tax Court case involving listed transactions is important for what did not happen: the Internal Revenue Service did not “throw the book” at the taxpayer.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that it would begin accepting tax forms covering depreciation on Sunday, February 10, and forms covering education credits on Thursday, February 14.

The Internal Revenue Service has stepped up its efforts this tax season to combat identity thieves who steal taxpayers’ tax refunds, participating in a nationwide sweep that nabbed 389 identity theft suspects last month alone.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for including mandatory language in consent forms that tax preparers are expected to send to clients before disclosing or using their tax return information.

For taxpayers who scrambled to make last-minute gifts at the end of 2012 to take advantage of the gift tax exemption and lower tax rate, it was a good thing to do despite the fact that within 23 hours of year’s end, legislation passed averting the return to the old-law $1 million exemption and 55 percent maximum tax rate.