Tax

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

Closing out a season marked by less drama, and the usual hurdles

While it has been around in a variety of forms since 1993, the exclusion for Qualified Small Business Stock Gains under section 1202 of the Tax Code didn’t really come into its own as a tax benefit until the exclusion rate increased to 100 percent in 2010.

The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble coordinating various overlapping programs that deal with referrals on tax evasion, in part because the referrals have to be submitted on paper forms, manually screened and then mailed to various departments within the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice delaying the estate basis reporting due date from March 31 until June 30, 2016.

With the increasing reliance on technology for filing tax returns, is the federal government taking the necessary measures to protect personal information?

A Miami-based startup has launched Taxfyle, an iPhone app aimed at Millennials that allows them to connect with a network of 300 CPAs who can help them prepare and file their taxes.

TaxAct has introduced online Form 990 software that allows tax-exempt organizations to file their information returns with the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering up to $10,000 to the winner of a new competition to make its online tax information more understandable to taxpayers.