Tax regulations

Earlier this week, I moderated an Accounting Today web seminar on Understanding Affordable Care Act Reporting: Year 2.

The IRS has released cost-of-living adjustments for the dollar limitations for pension plan contributions and other retirement-related items for tax year 2017.

No matter who wins this year’s presidential election, CFOs and tax directors alike will wonder what changes are looming. Given the slim chance of a complete overhaul of our tax system, the short answer to our titular question is, “Probably not much.”

The Internal Revenue Service issued an Audit Techniques Guide last month governing compliance with the tangible property repair regulations.

The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries—a response to sustained criticism from big business and from members of Congress, who had asked that they be delayed and scaled back.

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.

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

Warren Buffett just fact checked Donald Trump.

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.

Donald Trump offered a new line of defense of his own tax problems Tuesday: blame Hillary Clinton.