Tax

Tech-savvy practitioners will stand out during filing season.

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

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding individuals and businesses making year-end donations that several important tax law provisions have taken effect in recent years regarding gifting.

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

With the holidays upon us and tax season almost here, now is the perfect time to check in with your clients to discuss their gift-giving plans for the rest of the year.

President Barack Obama would veto a tax-break agreement being negotiated in Congress by Senate Democrats and House Republicans.

With only a few days remaining on Congress's 2014 legislative calendar, there is still no clear answer for whether and how Congress will deal with the nearly 60 "extender" tax provisions—the temporary provisions that have been routinely extended on a one- or two-year basis but were allowed to expire at the end of 2013.

Holiday shoppers who are planning spending sprees at their local stores on Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend will be contending not only with door-buster bargains, but also with sales taxes, which in some states and localities can be much higher or lower than others.

Tax extenders, temporary tax provisions that are reinstated by Congress on a regular basis, have been a recurring part of the tax arena for years. Most of the current group up for debate have expired at the end of 2013, and their eventual extension will be retroactive, but not all will be extended. Here are the best bets.

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