Tax planning

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.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents asked its tax experts the best practices clients should follow when working with a tax professional, and gave some helpful advice from an online survey whose results were released Monday.

Ever since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the headlines have been buzzing about the resulting income tax consequences for individuals and businesses, but what about the intersection with estate planning?

If exploiting a tax loophole is as much an art as a science, then the tax planning profession is poised for a creative renaissance.