Tax

The owner of a business that provided notary and tax preparation services in Camden, N.J., has pleaded guilty to filing false personal tax returns.

Nearly half of all states impose taxes on memberships in gyms, health clubs, athletic clubs and fitness clubs, while the rest either exempt memberships or don’t have state sales taxes at all, according to new research.

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

One of the Democratic Party’s favorite applause lines is getting another turn in the spotlight: hit hedge-fund millionaires with the same taxes as the working class.

At a recent gathering of corporate tax professionals, many confessed to uneasiness about the damage to the reputations of their companies from media reports about their tax strategies.

Greatland is adding year-end reporting for the Affordable Care Act to its W-2 and 1099 reporting software, Yearli.

H&R Block is looking for accountants, bookkeepers and salespeople to join its recently launched Block Small Business service.

A site that is used to process tax forms for nonprofit organizations on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service recently suffered a data breach.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has created a cybercrime unit to combat the growing trend of identity theft-related tax fraud as the problem morphs into data breaches and becomes more international in scope.

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