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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 said it would add three more excise tax forms to the lineup of federal tax return forms and schedules that taxpayers can file electronically.The first form that will be available for e-filing is the 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return, debuting this summer. Form 720, Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return, and Form 8849, Claim for Refund of Excise Taxes, will premiere later this year.
July 12 -
The IRS said it is reconsidering some of the private letter rulings its associate chief counsel’s office has issued regarding the gift tax consequences of trusts that employ distribution committees.The IRS’s chief counsel has discovered that some of the conclusions in the rulings may disagree with some prior revenue rules.
July 11 -
Intentional disregard of the law is the primary contributor to the tax collection gap experienced by the IRS, according to nearly half the CPAs surveyed in an online poll by the AICPA.
July 10 -
CCH said it will begin reselling tax exemption certificate management software and services from Imaging Science and Services Inc. on an exclusive basis worldwide.The products automate the organization of sales tax exemption and resale certificates. They include TeamsExpress on Demand, a hosted system for managing a database of tax documents, and LineLinkXL, a Microsoft Excel add-in.
July 10 -
Thomson Tax & Accounting released Version 8.0 of its ePropertyTax software, adding extra edit, query and data entry features to the Web-based system for commercial property taxpayers.The upgrade expands the mass-editing tool to help users copy, paste, import and export data throughout the system. Users can now customize queries in any data field to search for information.
July 10 -
I first came across the term a number of years ago when consultants stressed to me the importance of identifying where a business was in its life cycle. These consultants believed businesses and industries have a life cycle, and the key is identifying where the business is at that time. In the case of a business, its life cycle includes progressive identifiable stages, such as the “seed,” start-up, growth, established, etc.
July 9 -
Mahoney Cohen & Co. CPA PC has launched an international tax and consulting practice.
July 9