Tax

In Touch and in jail; end of the ride; took a powder; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Senate enters the final stages of debating President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill on Thursday, with passage in the chamber likely pushed off until the weekend.

In a court filing Wednesday, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department said they were still weighing how to respond to a subpoena by House Democrats.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen added an international tax policy expert to her staff as the U.S. reverses a Trump-era stance over digital taxation of technology companies.

Thomas Sandell and Sandell Asset Management are paying $105 million to New York, the biggest fine of its kind in the state.

Senator Elizabeth Warren said IRS funding should be bolstered so the richest Americans get audited about once every three years as part of her proposed 2 percent annual tax on wealth in excess of $50 million.

A Biden proposal to change the tax deduction for contributions to a tax credit could have serious implications.

To delay or not delay; three questions about a digital tax; nonprofits and theft; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

A U.S. donor to Canada’s WE Charity said he has asked the Internal Revenue Service to open a fraud investigation into the organization after testifying that it took down a plaque on a Kenya school built to honor his dead son and replaced it with that of another donor.

Practitioners face malpractice issues right from the start of filing, and this year may be even worse than usual.