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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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Confusion over reform legislation will bring clients in -- but it won't guarantee that they return.
January 9 -
Ranking Dems are worried the Internal Revenue Service might succumb to political pressure to make it appear that tax cuts are larger than they really are.
January 8 -
The IRS has recommendations for safely storing, sharing and disposing of taxpayer information.
January 8 -
New Jersey’s governor-elect joined a chorus of leaders in Democratic states who are proposing workarounds for their residents to avoid new caps on state and local tax deductions—even as a top Trump administration official suggested the federal government might act to limit such strategies.
January 8 -
For Big Oil, the U.S. tax overhaul is turning out to be a mixed bag, especially for companies that drill overseas.
January 8 -
The estate of the late award-winning singer and actress Whitney Houston has reportedly reached a deal with the Internal Revenue Service to pay $2,275,366 in taxes, far less than the $11.7 million the IRS said it was owed.
January 5 -
Morgan Stanley said it will take a roughly $1.25 billion hit to earnings in the fourth quarter, becoming the latest bank to detail how profit will be hurt in the near term by the U.S. tax overhaul driven by President Donald Trump.
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