Tax

How IRA conversions can come at a steep price for clients. Plus, ways to dodge a surprise bill from the IRS.

The administration’s plans may change how your clients form businesses.

Some CPA practices are using health reimbursement arrangements as a way to provide coverage to employees, in some cases offering them more benefits.

What would happen if the current brick-and-mortar standard continues to survive in an increasingly Web-based world?

The Internal Revenue Service is turning up the heat on taxpayers. Some of them, anyway.

Four-fifths of CPAs and accounting pros also expect the new administration to pursue tax reform.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a set of proposed guidelines to the Internal Revenue Service recommending how the IRS should deal with the allocation of unrelated business income expenses of tax-exempt organizations for dual-use facilities and personnel.

Debate over a border-adjustment tax is consuming Washington, but another, less-discussed proposal in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s tax plan stands a better chance of being included in a GOP overhaul bill.

The Oracle of Omaha cast doubt on a controversial centerpiece of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s tax overhaul, saying the measure would lead to higher prices for consumers and likely be scaled back because it’s too politically contentious.

H&R Block is out to wrest back market share from its online tax-prep rivals with such aggressive measures as free services and interest-free advances on refunds—oh, and plunking a supercomputing Jeopardy star down on the desks of its 70,000 tax preparers.