Tax

Americans who currently buy their own insurance through the individual market would receive tax credits averaging nearly $2,700 next year for coverage purchased through new insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study.

U.S. taxpayers filed 145.4 million individual income tax returns for tax year 2011, a 1.7 percent increase from 2010, according to newly released IRS statistics.

Married same-sex couples with children may face higher bills from the IRS as recent Supreme Court rulings start playing out in the tax code.

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.

Among the many tax reform issues to be resolved in the months ahead is whether or not to produce a comprehensive tax reform bill or simply one limited to corporate reform.

CCH has improved navigation and other features in its online IntelliConnect tax and accounting research service, including a redesigned CCH Tax Calendar.

The National Federation of Independent Business and the S Corporation Association released a new study Wednesday showing that S corporations pay the highest effective rates of any business type.

A proposal to drastically cut or abolish state income taxes in Georgia and replace them with higher sales taxes would raise taxes on up to 80 percent of Georgia taxpayers and spike Georgia's average state and local sales tax to as high as 14.5 percent, according to a new study.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department highlighting potential problems for international tax entities from the IRS’s proposed regulations related to the net investment income tax.

A pair of Senate Democrats have introduced legislation to end unlimited tax write-offs on performance-based executive pay, allowing publicly traded corporations to deduct only up to $1 million in pay per employee.