Tax

It's been a most unusual year for tax pros, and National Conference of CPA Practitioners president Neil Fishman dives into the major issues — and what's to come.

The U.S. House of Representatives won’t implement President Donald Trump’s order allowing employers to defer payroll taxes owed by workers, joining major companies in rejecting the option.

Levies on most households below the top income brackets would stay about the same as under Trump.

Taxpayers can use the rates to substantiate the expenses they can deduct for lodging, meals and incidental expenses.

Among other things, the IRS is providing the 1040 in Spanish for the first time.

A month after President Donald Trump moved to shore up workers’ incomes by giving employers the option of deferring payroll taxes, the effort has failed to energize a U.S. economy still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.

Contemptuous; fashion misstatements; handwritten document; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service added six more forms to the 10 that support e-signatures.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to mail out letters later this month to an estimated 9 million non-filers, encouraging them to claim their economic impact payments by an Oct. 15 deadline.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve how it handles third-party requests for access to taxpayer information and electronic signatures from representatives such as CPAs, enrolled agents and attorneys that could leave taxpayers at risk of identity theft, according to a new report.