Tax

Reasons to focus on complicated returns; 529 Day; in memory and in thanks; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The ruling rejects the ‘software defense’ for deduction errors.

Three disruptive tools are bringing major changes to corporate tax departments.

More than $1 million bilked in state taxes; dead wrongs; life goes on (trial); and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Thomson Reuters has introduced Checkpoint Marketing for Firms Emerging Tax and Regulation Alerts to allow accounting firms to keep clients informed about new and proposed tax legislation and regulatory changes.

A pledge not to give the wealthiest Americans an absolute tax cut is coming back to haunt Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Practitioner groups are taking their members’ concerns to Washington.

A federal court in Minneapolis has found Wells Fargo liable for a 20 percent negligence penalty for participating in a tax shelter sold by Barclays Bank that generated $350 million in foreign tax credits.

The Big Four firm will offer tax analysis, research and newsletters through the Wolters Kluwer product.

The Internal Revenue Service had to roll out a manual process last year to provide advance payments on Health Coverage Tax Credits every month to health plan administrators on behalf of displaced workers and retirees, but it mistakenly provided the tax credits for thousands of people who were old enough to qualify for Medicare.