Tax planning

The Biden administration is likely to dramatically change its approach to tax policy, with the first step in the stimulus package it began pushing through Congress this month.

Some business owners can get hurt by workarounds to the $10,000 limit for state and local tax deductions.

Hopes among millions of upper-income and middle-class taxpayers for a repeal of the Trump administration’s limits on their federal deductions will likely be on hold for now, as an effort to include the measure in the COVID-19 aid package is poised to fail.

Claims for the R&D tax credit may be coming under closer scrutiny from the IRS.

Your clients may have heard conflicting advice — they must change their IRA beneficiaries, spend down their IRA as soon as possible, dismantle their trust, or immediately convert their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, Sophia Duffy writes.

Senator Elizabeth Warren will join the Finance Committee, an A-list Senate panel that oversees tax, trade and health care legislation, according to a person familiar with the assignment.

Tax professionals are starting to hear questions from their clients ahead of the official start of tax season about a variety of issues related to COVID-19.

The Treasury Secretary-designate said she would work with lawmakers to fast-track a series of tax increases on corporations and wealthy Americans.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, who is chairing the Senate Finance Committee now that Democrats have won control of the Senate, described some of his policy priorities, including the tax area where his committee has oversight.

With the filing season upon us, a raft of brand new challenges await ahead of the April 15 deadline.