Tax planning

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act removed a number of provisions that benefited companies.

Highly paid professionals including accountants, investment managers, doctors and lawyers are eyeing a loophole in what’s supposed to be a mom-and-pop benefit of the new tax law as a way to supersize their savings.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s plan to fix a gaping loophole for hedge funds in President Donald Trump’s new tax law could face legal challenges.

The Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to make sure they have the proper amount of taxes taken out of their paychecks.

What does it take to get into the 1 percent? The price of admission is an adjusted gross income—basically, what you make before deductions—of $480,930.

Preparers find themselves explaining the difference between 2017 and 2018.

President Trump signed into law H.R. 1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, just hours after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 71-28 and the House by a margin of 240-186 this month.

Noyes, a 110-year-old wealth management and investment banking firm, intends to acquire more accounting and tax firms after buying Kiely & Associates, LLC, a 25-year-old Chicago tax and accounting practice, last month.

Bloomberg Tax released a new line of corporate tax software Wednesday known as Advantage, providing technology for handling fixed assets, federal and state tax, net operating losses, provision analysis, and sales and use tax rates.

With the season underway, preparers are still fine-tuning software, workflow and clients’ ability to realize that reform generally doesn’t affect the returns worked on now.