Tax

Republican leaders wanted to tout the six-month anniversary of their tax cuts this week. The rest of Washington was too busy to join the fanfare.

Cars, jewelry and rent; former IRS agent gets 52 months; brothers in crime; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

But in a stroke, the Supreme Court also erased the decades-old physical presence test.

The service offers some do’s and don’ts for taxpayers who get a frightening envelope.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is leveraging Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant to add voice-enabled search to its CCH AnswerConnect tax research product.

Avalara Inc. wasn’t a party in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that let states collect sales tax from online retailers, but it still looks like the case’s big winner.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday will allow states and local governments to pursue sales taxes on more online transactions. The big question for Amazon.com Inc. is how states will collect it.

Chalk up another victory for brick-and-mortar retailers.

The short form would fulfill one of the promises of last December’s tax overhaul.

SCOTUS rules 5-4 to give states greater power to make out-of-state retailers collect online sales taxes.