Tax

IMGCAP(1)]If there ever were a “good year to die,” that would have been 2010.

IMGCAP(1)][IMGCAP(2)]By doing what they do best—taking care of their clients—international accounting firms may be exposing themselves to multiple tax claims on their own account.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking the IRS to extend the due dates for filing the estate tax form for last year and this year and for a new form for allocating the increase in basis for property acquired from a decedent.

Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said in an editorial Monday that those making over $1 million and $10 million per year should be taxed at higher rates.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has written a letter to President Obama disagreeing with the president’s definition of the term “tax reform.”

Undercover investigators from the Treasury Department posing as taxpayers who needed customer service from the Internal Revenue Service were kept waiting for up to four hours in IRS offices and in some cases told to come back another day.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis has released a paper that considers changing the way to identify small businesses and their owners, along with their tax characteristics.

Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade the credit rating for U.S. debt could put new pressure on the members of the so-called “super committee” in Congress to agree on tax reforms.

States are coping with revenue shortfalls by getting rid of sales tax holidays and ratcheting up their audits of corporate sales and use taxes, according to new research.

Multinational companies needed to deal with 270 tax changes in the U.S. and globally in the second quarter of this year, according to a new report.