Tax

House Democrats have introduced health care legislation that would impose a surtax on upper-income taxpayers, and penalties on many small businesses that don’t provide health insurance coverage to employees.

The TV networks have been on a letter-writing campaign lately in an effort to dissuade Congress from ending the expensing of ads by pharmaceutical companies.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has been called to the White House to discuss his proposed surtax on the wealthy to pay for health insurance reform.

Entrepreneurs urged lawmakers to extend the research and development tax credit at a House subcommittee hearing Thursday.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has introduced a bill to lower the tax burden on small businesses.

New Jersey Governor John Corzine must be breathing a sigh of relief now that his state has recovered over $625 million from a tax amnesty program.

E-mail newsletter provider BizActions has introduced an Online Tax Guide that CPAs can link to from their own Web sites and brand with their own firm’s name and logo.

A new analysis by a former high-ranking IRS official explains how the Tax Code’s corporate reorganization provisions afford tax-free treatment to certain corporate combinations and realignments.

Typical end-of-year tax planning will be on everyone’s minds before you know it.

The U.S. and Swiss governments have concluded their negotiations over expanding the sharing of tax information to root out tax dodgers, and now plan to sign a protocol in the next few months.