Tax

A Georgia couple have pleaded guilty to participating in a identity theft-related tax fraud scheme in which they used the Internal Revenue Service’s online ‘Get Transcript’ application to steal other taxpayers’ refunds.

With the April 2016 tax filing season behind us, it is time to start focusing clients on new tax issues they will be facing for the current tax year.

The state tax arena is filled with variation, complexity, confusion and ambiguity, which has major implications for U.S. corporations, according to findings from Bloomberg BNA’s 2016 Survey of State Tax Departments, conducted for the 16th consecutive year.

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

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

Last week the Tax Court, in a case of first impression, ruled that payments made by a decedent through a trust to pay premiums on life insurance policies obtained to fund buy-sell agreements should not be regarded as loans still owed to her estate.

As a general rule, the cost of commercial real estate improvements is recovered over a painfully long period of 39 years via straight-line depreciation only.

Could those Form 4868 extensions that you’re filing for your clients turn tax procrastinators into prey?

The Tax Foundation has released a report on proposals to integrate the corporate and individual income tax codes and how they might work in the context of congressional tax reform.