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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's Direct File pilot program has expanded beyond internal testing of its free tax prep system to taxpayers in a dozen states.
February 22
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The agency will begin three to four dozen new audits this spring to see if inappropriate deductions were made.
February 22
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The report casts a skeptical eye on the PPLI industry, claiming it functions as a tax shelter for a few thousand millionaires and billionaires.
February 21
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The Internal Revenue Service will be scrutinizing the use of corporate jets, focusing on big corporations and partnerships, as well as high-income taxpayers.
February 21
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While property and unemployment insurance taxes are universal in every state, many of the best states for doing business do not have corporate, sales or individual income taxes.
February 21
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The president's son's lawyers filed a flurry of motions in the federal court seeking to have the tax charges dismissed.
February 21
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The decades-old global consensus that's allowed e-commerce and a growing tidal wave of data to cross borders without tolls is at risk of falling apart.
February 21
