Tax season

From a trickle to a flood, returns have started to flow in after initial delays.

Here are some ways to save you and your tax practice some headaches this season.

This is your clients' time to communicate directly with you: Even the once-per-year tax clients need to interact with you -- so you have two choices.

It’s busy season again: a time when you can barely breathe as you hurry to complete returns for clients who often wait until the very last minute to submit tax preparation documents.

Checks aren't in the mail yet, but they could be, for millions of taxpayers who didn't file a 2013 return.

Ranking state taxes; Schedule M-2 spreadsheets; corporate income tax with no physical presence; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The tax prep chain has partnered with consumer financial resources company NerdWallet to help taxpayers save for their futures.

H&R Block is out to wrest back market share from its online tax-prep rivals with such aggressive measures as free services and interest-free advances on refunds—oh, and plunking a supercomputing Jeopardy star down on the desks of its 70,000 tax preparers.

While death and taxes may be a certainty, how quickly Americans are getting their refunds remains up in the air—and that’s taking a toll on eateries’ revenue.

ACA penalties; helping with OICs; tax policy under an anti-policy president; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS says it will accept filings that don’t say whether a a taxpayer has health insurance for ACA purposes.

Every preparer wants to know what their clients think. The trick is how to find out.

Taxpayers often have radically different opinions of the Internal Revenue Service than tax professionals — which offers practitioners some opportunities.

A new alert cautions practitioners about phishing emails purporting to come from tax app companies.

The Internal Revenue Service is putting out the word on how to beat the tax-filing crowd right after Presidents Day—one of the agency’s busiest times of the year.

The company announced that they will provide TaxWise® Online 2016 to volunteer preparers at bases around the globe.

Teens from Florida, Michigan and Texas each received $20,000 college scholarships from the tax prep chain's recent Budget Challenge high school competition.

The IRS web page where taxpayers and tax professionals can check on the status of refunds will be updated on Saturday, February 18 for most early filers who claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit.

Purchased vs. licensed tax software; the Trump impact on taxes; a Canadian perspective on filing U.S. taxes; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

There is no question there are different kinds of complexity for returns.