Tax

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on the 2016 filing season and the Internal Revenue Service’s cybersecurity efforts.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

A number of mobile tax apps could be putting users’ personal information at risk of exposure to hackers, according to security researchers.

I always ended tax season with my office closed the next day. It is a day to clear your mind and come down from a high-performance mentality.

Liberty Tax Service has closed 28 of its franchised locations in the New York City area, instructing them to cease preparing and filing tax returns for the remainder of the 2015 tax filing season.

The Senate Finance Committee has dropped a provision for regulating tax preparers from legislation that would curb identity theft and tax fraud.

This probably will beggar belief for the millions of Americans struggling to meet this year's April 18 deadline to file their income tax returns, but the Internal Revenue Service says it has gotten better at handling taxpayer questions.

Group of 20 economies threatened to penalize havens that don’t share information on their banking clients after the leak of the Panama Papers provoked a global uproar over tax evasion.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning tax professionals about a new scam in which cybercriminals obtain remote control of tax preparers’ computer systems, complete and file client tax returns, and redirect tax refunds to thieves’ accounts.