Tax planning

The Democratic presidential candidate made a mistake on deducting medical expenses in 2013 and 2014.

The Vermont senator and his wife earned more than $1 million in total income in 2016 and 2017.

David Knoch, the president of 1st Global, is getting ready for the close of the acquisition of his financial advisory firm by Blucora, the parent company of HD Vest, and is making plans for aligning with a former rival.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, is reviving a plan that would tax wealthy individuals annually on their investments, instead of when those assets are sold.

For New York City’s luxury real estate brokers, a new mansion tax certainly isn’t welcome news, but it’s better than the alternative.

The Internal Revenue Service treats crypto money as a capital asset like stocks or property, not as a currency.

We can offer clients a huge value and also generate some additional revenue for ourselves.

Democrats are busy finding new ways to tax the rich. The most straightforward way to do that — an annual tax on household wealth — is an idea with deep roots in Europe that several 2020 hopefuls are hoping to import to the U.S.

The Democratic presidential candidate is joining in calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, an issue that’s taking hold among the contenders for the party’s nomination in 2020.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of managing its employees in the wake of budget cuts that have forced the IRS to severely reduce tax audits, or else it could be putting its mission at risk, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

There’s no question that U.S. taxation of intellectual property has become amazingly more complex after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A new limit on the amount of state and local levies that can be deducted has costly and confounding implications for some, especially in high-tax places.

Blucora plans to combine HD Vest’s individual tax advisor focus with 1st Global’s institutional, multi-partner focus.

High-end real estate brokers in New York worry that foreign second-home buyers are feeling under assault from all sides and may end up going elsewhere.

Repeat tax debtors and their tax pros should use tax season to clear up past balances.

Bill Gates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders all want the rich to pay more taxes, but Gates is saying what the Democratic candidates appear to be thinking: Go for the capital gains rate.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie added momentum to the idea of taxing non-resident owners of multi-million dollar apartments as a way to help pay for billions of dollars of regional transit improvements.

National Football League veteran Ndamukong Suh has always mixed football with finance, considering things like state taxes when weighing where to play.

Watch out, Wall Street. Democrats, who have so far focused on plans to tax the super-rich, are turning their sights to capital markets.

Execs in a new BDO survey don’t see the economy staying strong beyond two years.