Tax

A brewing fight about which country has the right to tax some of the world’s most profitable companies, including Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, could devolve into a multi-front trade war, regardless of whether President Donald Trump is still in the White House.

Here’s hoping that fewer last-minute changes will make for easier filing.

Maryland and Nebraska may pioneer digital advertising taxes.

Fraud and execs; IRS tries to net non-filers; marketing media; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS also announced the 13`1 tax clinics that will be receiving $11.6 million in matching grants for 2020.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made the most far-reaching changes in the Tax Code in over 30 years, but it’s far from the last word on tax reform.

The Supreme Court vacated and remanded Tuesday an appeals court decision that found under federal common law, a tax refund due from a joint tax return generally belongs to the company responsible for the losses that form the basis of the refund, rejecting a nearly half-century-old precedent.

The Internal Revenue Service is confronting challenges with administering and ensuring compliance with the business provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, although it has made a considerable amount of progress in implementing them, according to a new government report.

They come in every year with something on their minds, but this early season’s sampling shows a few definite trends of what tax preparation clients are talking about with their preparers — and the advice preparers give back.

The justices let stand an appeals ruling that precluded a tax refund to movie producers, deferring to an IRS regulation that ended the common-law mailbox rule for refund claims, even though Clarence Thomas reversed his position on an earlier case.