Tax laws

The Internal Revenue Service has released a set of proposed regulations for businesses to follow when deducting meals and entertainment, in response to the 2017 tax overhaul.

The Internal Revenue Service is getting set to unveil its proposed regulations for the reporting of unrelated business income for tax-exempt organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released guidance Friday to help farmers deal with a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and reduce their taxes by leveraging a tax break for small businesses.

Tax reform brought new wrinkles to the deduction for energy-efficient improvements.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service for more guidance on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that imposes a 21 percent excise tax on tax-exempt organizations that pay over $1 million in compensation, or so-called “excess parachute payments,” to top executives.

Even though each digital service provider differs from the next, all DSPs are forced to navigate a complicated, evolving and non-harmonized set of tax rules that govern their businesses around the world.

The Internal Revenue Service provided guidance and a safe harbor Wednesday for businesses that claim carbon capture credits in an effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

Internal Revenue Service officials said Wednesday they will be visiting approximately 800 taxpayers who earn over $100,000 a year and haven’t filed one or more tax returns in prior years.

Spain will introduce a digital services tax at the end of the year that would hit the revenue of companies such as Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a move likely to draw the ire of the U.S. administration.

Mark Zuckerberg for the first time said he supports efforts to create a global digital tax that would ultimately raise the amount Facebook Inc. pays to foreign countries, in a move that may boost efforts to put a new levy in effect by year-end.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have introduced legislation to block the Treasury Department from providing a way for multinational corporations to choose the lowest available tax rate.

Updating global tax rules could boost government revenue by as much as $100 billion, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday in an effort to spur complex negotiations between world powers.

The university is dealing with a new levy on college endowments included in the 2017 tax overhaul, the first time private colleges will pay such a fee.

A group of IRS stakeholder organizations has submitted a letter to the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Services with suggestions on the implementation of the Taxpayer First Act.

Several recent tax law changes promise to help religious groups, houses of worship, charities, private foundations, utilities and other tax-exempt organizations, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

The state's new law has made a confusing situation even murkier, as the ripples of Wayfair continue to linger in evolving tax law.

A drafting error in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act inadvertently removed Qualified Improvement Property from bonus eligible property. This was a mistake and a technical correction was expected. However, none was ever made.

The Taxpayer First Act protects a broad range of disclosures about potential violations of IRS rules or tax fraud.

Tax pros share what they and their clients think about the proposed tax on the rich.

For the first time in more than five years, the IRS released further cryptocurrency tax guidance.