Tax

The Internal Revenue Service has revised and updated its publication on how businesses should protect taxpayer data.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a consumer alert about possible fake charity scams emerging due to severe flooding this month in South Carolina and neighboring states.

Bloomberg BNA has released an analysis of the state tax challenges associated with cloud computing.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urging him to recover the tax benefits earned by Volkswagen for the cars it sold that turned out to have their emissions tests rigged, but without penalizing the taxpayers who had purchased the supposedly energy efficient vehicles and claimed tax credits for them.

Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal released a tax reform plan that would require all Americans to pay taxes.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday examining the rising costs of higher education and tax policy, including how tax breaks could be a contributing factor behind spiraling tuition costs.

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee are asking Volkswagen about the federal tax credits given to buyers of its vehicles for owning energy-efficient cars, amid revelations that the automaker programmed its devices to cheat emissions tests.

Nearly three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies booked their profits to tax havens last year, with just 30 companies accounting for 62 percent of earnings stashed offshore, according to a new report.

One-quarter of corporate tax and transfer pricing directors believe their companies will fail to meet the first deadline proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Action Plan, according to a new survey.

Former UBS AG executive Hansruedi Schumacher, who pleaded guilty to helping Americans dodge taxes and testified at trial against his former boss, was sentenced to five years of probation by a judge who granted him leniency.