Tax

The American Institute of CPAs has sent comments to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department asking for changes in the IRS’s draft Form 8971, Information Regarding Beneficiaries Acquiring Property from a Decedent, and draft instructions.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

Modified extenders may require revised planning to maximize benefits.

Thomson Reuters has released ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Integration for Microsoft Dynamics AX, connecting the company’s sales tax and VAT software with Microsoft’s enterprise accounting product.

The Internal Revenue Service joined partners across the country in promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit on EITC Awareness Day on Friday.

Tax preparation software provider TaxSlayer detected suspicious activity on its servers about a week after another tax software developer, TaxAct, was attacked by identity thieves.

Given that tax prep businesses, like all businesses that depend on repeat customers, lose a portion of their client base each year, it is imperative they market themselves and attract new clients just to stay even.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more work to refine its latest fraud detection system to catch the new schemes that its older system managed to detect, according to a government report.

After three years and $1.37 billion in penalties, the U.S. is ending a disclosure program that forced Swiss banks to reveal all the secret ways they helped Americans evade taxes.