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IRS projects fewer schedules, more e-filing

The Statistics of Income Division’s latest report looks ahead to a new filing landscape.

By Jeff Stimpson

6h ago

AT-101819 - IRS 1040 projections - GRAPH

VoicesArt of Accounting: Lessening compression oppression

Here are some suggestions on how to pull work out of tax season and push it into November and December to better handle the extra work.

9h ago

Edward Mendlowitz

Partner

WithumSmith+Brown PC CPAs

Tax reform

About 2.7M fewer people got tax refunds after law change

Millions fewer people got tax refunds this year under the tax law overhaul that altered rates and paycheck withholding starting in 2018, according to new figures from the IRS.

By Laura Davison

10h ago

Tax-related court cases

Tax Fraud Blotter: Deductions are extra

French toast; unsportsmanlike conduct; nailed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

By Jeff Stimpson

October 17

VoicesIssues with implementing cost segregation and other depreciation changes

Companies will commission a cost segregation study, but its analysis never gets implemented on the tax return.

October 17

David McGuire

Director

McGuire Sponsel

Web Seminar Roadmap to tax season

With October 15 behind them, accountants and tax professionals can start planning for the end of the year and the long road to April 15.

Sponsored by Sage Thomson Reuters

VoicesIn the blogs: Cryptic questions

Passport revocation; lease accounting deadlines; re-routed refund; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

October 16

Jeff Stimpson

Freelance writer

IRS

Nine named to ETAAC

The new members will serve three-year terms.

By Jeff Stimpson

October 15

International taxes

Taxation in a digital world

A dive into the OECD’s approach to a global framework for taxing digital services providers.

By Roger Russell

October 15

Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, right, speaks as Jose Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), from left, Taro Aso, Japan's deputy prime minister and finance minister, Liu Kun, China's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's finance minister, and Philip Hammond, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, look on during the Group of 20 (G-20) ministerial symposium on international taxation at the G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, on Saturday, June 8, 2019. The challenges of raising tax from the digital economy was the focus of a session with finance ministers from China, France, Japan, Indonesia, Britain and the U.S. Photographer: Toshifumi Kitamura/Pool via Bloomberg