Tax

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Less than half of filings for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act have been accurate, according to a new survey.

There are plenty of reasons to get married. Your taxes may not be one of them.

Restaurateur Rowen Seibel has made the gossip pages for getting socked by Diane von Furstenburg’s son and multimillion-dollar court fights he’s waging with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

Although the tax positions of the two major candidates would face major hurdles before either one becomes law, interested observers have wasted no time in dissecting them, praising them or pointing out defects.

Telephone scammers may target students and parents during the back-to-school season and demand payments for such non-existent taxes as the “Federal Student Tax,” the IRS has warned.

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.

The Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations Wednesday for a 2 percent tax on payments from the U.S. government to foreign contractors.