Tax research

The IRS has released a number of draft tax forms and instructions for the 2016 tax year on its website, including Form 1040 and its related schedules.

The IRS has released on its website a number of draft tax forms and instructions for the 2016 tax year, including Form 1040 and its related schedules.

The Internal Revenue Service is opening up its detailed tax data to researchers outside the federal government who can make use of the information in their studies.

Vendors share their latest developments in tax research.

Multinational corporations could end up shifting even more of their income to low-tax countries under some tax reform proposals, according to a new study.

Better searches, more options, and paper’s surprising survival

The Tax Foundation has released its annual ranking of states and how competitive their business tax codes are.

This U.S. presidential campaign, and particularly that of Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, moved the issue of income inequality front and center. Now there are some new numbers in that department, and they won’t make many people happy.

With summer now behind us, it’s time for older taxpayers—those ages 65 and above—to consider how they will be affected by the higher post-2016 floor beneath medical expenses.

Inflation-adjusted tax brackets for the 2017 tax year, based on the average inflation index for the 12-month period ending on August 31, 2016, show a slight uptick for the year ahead, according to Wolters Kluwer’s George Jones.

Inflation-adjusted tax brackets are anticipated to go up a bit next year, according to a pair of new reports, but that could reduce the tax burden for many taxpayers.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development issued last October the final Base Erosion and Profit Shifting reports that are expected to fundamentally change the course of international taxation and transfer pricing for all multinational enterprises.

The rules for claiming net operating losses to offset income tax liabilities can vary from state to state and are proving to be a big challenge for many companies, especially as both the economy and corporate profitability improve.

A total of 37 states provide full exemptions from sales and use taxes on manufacturing equipment and machinery, but for the rest of the states, the rules can be different.

The average rate for sales taxes across the U.S. increased a bit in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting said Monday the Internal Revenue Service has selected it for the 12th year in a row to provide sales tax rate and taxability tables for taxpayers.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, earned adjusted gross income of $10.6 million in 2015 and paid $3.6 million in federal income taxes, according to a tax return her campaign released Friday as it sought to draw a contrast with her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

Thomson Reuters has added content to its Checkpoint Catalyst tax and accounting research service on passive foreign investment companies and sales and use tax exemptions for manufacturers.

Tax executives at U.S.-based multinational companies are having a hard time adjusting to the new rules demanded by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting plan, also known as OECD BEPS, according to a new survey.

Tax lawyer Kelly Phillips Erb, aka “taxgirl,” has written for The New York Times and is now a staff writer for Forbes.com, but she never set out to be a famous blogger or national thought leader.