Tax planning

Sometimes the strategy can eliminate a domino effect of other expensive tax problems down the road, Ed Slott writes.

I hear the comment all the time, “If I do cost segregation, I’ll just give it all back in recapture when I sell.” Allow me to debunk that myth and more.

Three of America’s most discreet billionaire philanthropists have emerged as the biggest donors to the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund after the IRS accidentally revealed their identities.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy proposed taxing online-room booking, ride-sharing, marijuana, e-cigarettes and internet transactions along with raising taxes on millionaires and retail sales to fund a record $37.4 billion budget that would boost spending on schools, pensions and mass transit.

Clients may face unexpected tax consequences from transactions with these digital assets.

The Illinois CPA Society has some advice for taxpayers who are betting on the March Madness tournament and manage to win money on their picks for the brackets.

Congressional Republicans created a juicy new break for business owners when they rewrote the U.S. tax code late last year. Three months later, hundreds of thousands of U.S. employers still don’t know if they can claim it.

The Internal Revenue Service has tweaked some of its previously released brackets and limits.

A provision in the budget act could eliminate tax on their excess business holdings.

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.

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.