Tax
Tax News & IRS Insights for Accounting Professionals
Accounting Today delivers news and analysis for accounting and tax professionals on federal and state tax developments, IRS guidance,information reporting, and operational implications for practices and clients. Our coverage focuses on legislative and procedural shifts that tax practitioners must monitor in planning, compliance, and advisory contexts.
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A new report from Ernst & Young demonstrates how many multinational corporations are being pushed in the direction of greater transparency about their tax strategies as their reputations come under attack in the U.S. and abroad for shifting their profits to tax havens.
May 29 -
A unit of Societe Generale SA based in Switzerland and three other banks agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties for helping American clients avoid taxes.
May 29 -
Minimizing self-employment taxes to owners of pass-through entities
May 29 -
Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.
May 28 -
Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School, has some suggestions for independent preparers to stay on the cutting edge during the summer.
May 28 -
On the heels of a disclosure this week that identity thieves were able to access 104,000 tax returns through the Internal Revenue Services Get Transcript application, a new report finds that the IRS is improving its identification of fraudulent tax returns involving identity theft.
May 28 -
An after-action report on the 2015 filing season.
May 28
