Tax

SaaS-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara released AvaTax 1099, a cloud-based offering for 1099 reporting that leverages a new strategic partnership with SaaS-based tax information reporting company Convey.

With the exception of Spain, Luxembourg, Ireland, and a few other countries, most nations did not increase their top personal income tax rate this past year despite revenue pressures, according to a new report from KPMG.

Practitioners tend to view tax season with mixed feelings. On the downside, there's getting clients to send you the data you need to construct their return, and determining how much of what they give you is actually germane to the return.

Recently, a former colleague whom I had worked with during an overlong apprenticeship at a local daily newspaper announced that he was taking on a second career after nearly a quarter century of toiling in some form of media or another. After whining for years how much he was paying his accountant to prepare his taxes and pointing out how his journalist's compensation package didn't exactly rival Rupert Murdoch's, he somehow envisioned a second act as a paid tax preparer moonlighting for a large franchise which shall remain anonymous. Sort of like the occupational version of a mid-life crisis, sans the Harley or the super-charged Camaro.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to take additional steps in order to expand its audits to include returns from prior or subsequent years when taxpayers being audited may owe substantial taxes.

IMGCAP(1)]In the current business and economic climate, the value of being a pro-active tax and financial advisor for your business owner clients cannot be understated.

The airline industry’s trade organization, the Air Transport Association of America, is asking Congress to reject President Obama’s plan to levy $3.5 billion a year in new taxes and fees for airlines and passengers, saying it would increase fares or reduce service, resulting in job losses.

As multinational corporations and lobbyists push for a reduction in the corporate tax rate and a tax holiday on repatriated foreign profits, the tax loopholes that have encouraged companies to shift their income abroad have managed to stay largely intact.

A bipartisan trio of lawmakers have introduced a bill that would update the existing tax law to allow formerly homeless young people to pursue a four-year college education and still qualify for housing built with Low Income Housing Tax Credits.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee demanded Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service suspend a proposed regulation that would require banks to disclose the amount of interest paid to nonresident aliens.