Tax practice

The IRS has been so slow to adapt to the rapidly emerging peer-to-peer economy that billions of dollars in taxable income a year are probably going unreported every year, according to a study being delivered to Congress this week.

States are hungrier than ever, an annual sales tax survey finds

The IRS will conduct its annual Memorial Day systems shutdown beginning Saturday, May 28.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including the most brazen fake business name in tax fraud history.

Congratulations, now that you’ve made it through the end of busy season and managed to put all of those long evenings in the office in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get back to business. Now is a great time to revisit your firm’s strategic plan for 2016.

Now that it’s springtime and the birds are chirping, it’s important for your tax clients to consider education-related expenses when applying for federal financial aid.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service about Notice 2015-54, Transfers of Property to Partnerships with Related Foreign Partners.

The Tax Court said no to an accountant and tax preparer who tried to deduct the cost of law school.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to begin testing as early as next week a more secure version of the online “Get Transcript” app that was taken down last year when the IRS discovered it had been used by hackers to access hundreds of thousands of tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service still doesn't have the authority from Congress to correct billions of dollars in erroneous claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit despite recent legislation, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to enhance its internal control over financial reporting, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

Although the initial flurry of publicity surrounding the leak of the Panama Papers has subsided somewhat, the release serves as a reminder that there’s a real problem for taxpayers still holding offshore accounts that they haven’t reported, according to Ivan Golden, an attorney at Schiff Hardin LLP.

Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing software that uses big data technology to automate, track and analyze the transfer pricing process.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent more than 160 recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service regarding on the items to include on the agency’s 2016-2017 Guidance Priority List.

The European Union, locked in a tax battle with the likes of Apple Inc. and McDonald’s Corp., laid down the law in its bid to rein in governments that woo multinationals with special fiscal deals allowing them to reduce their fiscal liability by booking profits abroad.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations for disbursements from Roth individual retirement accounts, removing the allocation rule for disbursements from designated Roth accounts to multiple destinations.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, released a legislative discussion draft Wednesday to lay the groundwork for tax reform in the area of financial derivatives.

Donald Trump claimed income of more than $557 million over the last year, though the campaign provided few details on the sources of the money.

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

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on integrating the corporate and individual tax codes, specifically in terms of allowing corporations to deduct the dividends they pay shareholders from their taxes.