Tax practice

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations on earnings stripping in an effort to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions.

A New Jersey Tax Court judge has sided with a couple who won $46 million in the state lottery in 2000 and elected to have their winnings distributed in annual installments as a multiyear annuity payment, holding that the state did not have the right to retroactively tax their winnings after passing a new statute.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the Internal Revenue Service has released new rules and procedures for deducting disaster losses.

The Internal Revenue Service allowed over $27.2 million in potentially wrong tax refunds or tax credits to 1,938 taxpayers who made so-called “frivolous tax arguments,” according to a new report.

Facebook Inc. is carrying on its fight with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over taxes relating to its transfer of global operations to Ireland in 2010.

The IRS is sending due diligence letters to paid preparers who may be noncompliant in meeting their Earned Income Tax Credit due-diligence requirements.

Hillary Clinton’s proposed tax increases on people with high incomes and on businesses would constrain economic growth, according to a policy group’s analysis.

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

The Internal Revenue Service is giving victims of Hurricane Matthew in North Carolina extra time to file their tax returns and make tax payments.

President Obama has signed legislation exempting Olympic and Paralympic athletes from taxes on their medals and winnings.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is proposing to revamp and expand the child tax credit to provide more benefits for low-income families and for eligible families with children age 4 and under.

Warren Buffett just fact checked Donald Trump.

A new IRS test program doubles the dollar limit for people to more easily set up payment plans for their tax debt.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The American Institute of CPAs sent a letter Friday to the Internal Revenue Service with 40 recommendations that it wants the IRS to consider when drafting guidance on a new regime for auditing large, complex partnerships.

The Internal Revenue Service added new data elements last tax season to its computer system filters to catch suspected cases of identity theft-related tax fraud totaling $4.1 billion, according to a new report, but it posted information about the secret data elements on its public website IRS.gov before removing it.

Police in India have raided nine call centers in Mumbai and arrested 70 people who were calling phone numbers in the United States pretending to be Internal Revenue Service demanding payment for taxes.

A new question surrounding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s business empire emerged recently, thanks to the publication of a 1995 New York state tax document: How could he have had a $916 million personal loss from troubled ventures that burned his creditors?

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on whether software that has been developed by companies for their own internal use can qualify for the research and development tax credit.

The details of Donald Trump’s taxes are a bit of a mystery, even with the unauthorized release of a single tax return from 1995. Still, the evidence suggests that the real-estate magnate and presidential candidate may have used a staggering loss of $916 million to avoid paying income taxes for many years afterward.