Tax regulations

The Internal Revenue Service has released temporary and proposed regulations implementing a new voluntary certification program for professional employer organizations, or PEOs.

The Internal Revenue Service is changing its procedures for resolving issues with corporate taxpayers through pre-filing agreements while also increasing the fees.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final and temporary regulations on the self-employment tax treatment of partners in a partnership that owns a disregarded entity and whether they can participate in employee benefit plans.

When Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. announced a merger with two overseas counterparts last August, the Atlanta-based bottler of Coke drinks in Western Europe said the deal had nothing to do with cutting its corporate tax bills.

Free lectures, admission to athletic games and concerts, even shuttles to Trader Joe’s are some of the perks that neighbors of Princeton University get from New Jersey’s only Ivy League school.

Rebecca Newton-Clarke, a senior editor/author at Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint, discusses in this video the corporate income tax implications of e-commerce and how to deal with the lack of guidance from most states on taxation of e-commerce transactions, including issues such as nexus and apportionment.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued inflation-adjusted deduction limits for health savings accounts next year.

Chevron Corp. used a shell company in a tax haven to escape hundreds of millions of dollars in Australian taxes, according to a 2015 court ruling. The subsidiary, which allowed Chevron to eliminate Australian taxes on $1.7 billion in profit earned there, wasn’t secreted away on a remote tropical island—it was set up in the very mundane locale where corporate secrecy was born: Delaware.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations providing guidance to private foundations on program-related investments.

A senior Treasury Department official in charge of international tax policy is seeing a greater role being played by the Group of 20 finance ministers in setting the agenda for tax laws around the world.

Payroll tax credits, workforce training grants, infrastructure grants, property tax abatements and tax increment financing are just a few of the tools that state and local economic development groups have at their disposal to entice businesses to expand and invest in their communities.

The Senate Finance Committee has dropped a provision for regulating tax preparers from legislation that would curb identity theft and tax fraud.

Why would anyone spend $24 million to buy a 1 percent stake in the New York Yankees? Minority ownership seems like a lose-lose proposition: A lot of money for very little power. For wealthy sports fans, though, it’s cool—and can be one heck of a tax shelter.

European Union regulators sought to shame big global companies into paying their full tax bill by forcing them to publish how much they divert to offshore havens.

Escalating a 19-month regulatory assault against U.S. companies’ shifting their tax addresses offshore, President Barack Obama’s administration last week also went after companies that have always been overseas.

Among the issues that are keeping tax executives up at night are anti-inversion rules that don’t address the root cause: an anti-competitive U.S. tax system.

The White House traded accusations of unpatriotic behavior with the CEO of a major drugmaker after unexpectedly tough new rules from the U.S. Treasury Department on corporate inversions derailed a $160 billion merger between Pfizer Inc. and Allergan Plc.

The biggest deal in drug industry history is dead. Pfizer Inc. and Allergan Plc terminated their $160 billion merger on Wednesday after the U.S. government proposed regulations to crack down on corporate tax inversions, stymieing New York-based Pfizer’s long effort to get out from under the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.

President Barack Obama issued a forceful denunciation of companies that shield profit overseas through corporate inversions, praising new rules that would curb what he called one of the U.S. tax system’s most insidious loopholes.

As the U.S. took tougher steps Monday to limit the tax-cutting power of corporate inversions, analysts said the new rules may put a planned $160 billion merger between Pfizer Inc. and Allergan Plc in jeopardy.