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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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The Internal Revenue Service has been having more problems with delayed tax refunds.
February 20 -
Just over 50 percent of Americans anticipate they will receive a refund on either their federal or state income tax return this year, according to a new survey, and of those 63 percent said they plan to save or invest at least part of the money.
February 17 -
The Internal Revenue Service is giving extra time to taxpayers who lived in some of the countries caught up in the Arab Spring upheavals in the Middle East.
February 17 -
Congress passed legislation Friday extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the doc fix for Medicare physician reimbursements through the remainder of the year.
February 17 -
There hasn’t been a federal budget in three years, so what’s to worry about the just-released budget for fiscal year 2013?
February 16 -
House and Senate negotiators have released a conference committee report spelling out several of the provisions of the payroll tax cut extension legislation, which also extends unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” for Medicare reimbursements for physicians.
February 16 -
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman warned tax executives that they face substantial tax risks from uncertain tax positions, international enforcement efforts, and impermanent tax credits that expire every year or two.
February 16
