Tax reform

PE has the President-elect on speed dial. That may benefit the $2.5 trillion industry as several key issues are put in play.

Even as someone who lives and breathes compliance and regulatory issues, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the many changes that happen each year.

Wind-power skeptic Donald Trump’s proposed tax reform may have an unintended consequence: threatening wind farms’ balance sheets.

Donald Trump to the rescue? The $8.55 trillion bond market has bucked concerns over mounting company indebtedness and so far resisted fears about the knock-on effects of the potential unraveling of the 35-year-old bull-run in government debt.

The changes are easy in concept: Most people favor lowering the tax rate and closing loopholes. The difficulty is in the details.

RSM US chief economist Joe Brusuelas talks in this video about the impact of a tax overhaul on growth.

Nina Olson wants the Internal Revenue Service to take more of a “taxpayer-centric” approach and for Congress to focus on tax simplification in its tax reform efforts.

A one-year tax holiday for the more than $2 trillion parked overseas is clearly in the offing, experts say.

Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US, discusses in this video the three major trends that accountants and their clients should be paying attention to in 2017.

Car maker, fresh from canceling a Mexico factory Donald Trump criticized, expects the incoming president to deliver on promises of tax reform that will benefit U.S. manufacturers.

Chief financial officers predict less gridlock in Congress on tax reform, according to a new survey by Deloitte.

Public debates over undocumented immigrants often suffer from scarce and erroneous information about their tax contributions, particularly at the state level.

Congressional Democrats say they’ll try to thwart Republican plans to overhaul the U.S. tax code by portraying them as a boon for the rich that betrays President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to fight for working Americans.

The IRS is wasting taxpayer dollars on employee travel, according to a new report from the Senate Finance Committee.

Tax policy plays a major role in the incoming administration’s plans to boost the U.S. economy in 2017 and beyond, but they’ll need to pursue it carefully, according to Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at the Top 5 Firm.

With Republican control of Congress and the presidency, most practitioners think some kind of change is coming to the Tax Code – but they differ wildly on what form it will take.

American Institute of CPAs transmits a collection of suggested changes to Congress’s main tax-writing committees to consider next year.

Federal Reserve's interest rate hike could have an impact on tax reform.

Bloomberg BNA’s Daily Tax Report released its 2017 Outlook, forecasting major changes to tax and accounting policies under the incoming Trump Administration and a Republican Congress.