Tax

The controversy keeps mounting over a new tax break for investing in poor U.S. communities. But investors keep piling in.

The Internal Revenue Service debuted a new Gig Economy Tax Center on its IRS.gov website to help taxpayers who work with companies like Uber and Airbnb meet their tax obligations.

Avoid some of the problems that can come up during an audit by using the wrong words.

The IRS’s new anti-fraud filters are unnecessarily flagging millions of tax returns and delaying legitimate tax refunds for weeks or months.

Sometimes it can feel like now, it’s up to the client to do their part so you can do your job. In many ways, you’re right.

Get working on it now, before the filing season rush begins.

Top posts of last year; decades of breaks; parenting credits; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service’s announcement last month delaying a requirement for reporting partners’ share of partnership capital offers some extra time to busy tax practitioners, but the issue still isn’t going away and may lead to some other problems.

The Avantax Wealth Management parent views HK Financial as another way of working with CPAs and tax professionals branching into the field.

Donald Trump can face a lawsuit in New York because his residency at the White House “is not permanent” and his tax returns would prove it, according to an advice columnist suing the president for denying he raped her two decades ago.