Tax

The solution provides guidance on tax inquiries input by practitioners who need more information on localized laws.

The Internal Revenue Service reopened its Preparer Tax Identification Number system Wednesday after closing it earlier this month because it lost a lawsuit over registration and renewal fees. 

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The House passed legislation Tuesday to simplify state income tax rules for employees who travel across state lines.

Avalara, a provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation business software, has teamed up with the publisher John Wiley & Sons to produce “Customs Duty & Import Tax for Dummies,” an e-book that’s part of Wiley’s “for Dummies” line of instruction guides.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a memorandum for its field examiners instructing them that frequently asked questions and other items posted on the agency’s IRS.gov site that have not been published in the Internal Revenue Bulletin are not considered to be legal authority.

Four days before the one-year anniversary of the release of his tax blueprint, House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered a pep-talk seeking to assuage growing doubts about the prospects for a major tax overhaul.

Senate Republicans may be asked to vote on a controversial health-care bill as early as next week but most of them haven’t seen the plan and at least half a dozen say they’re not sure they can support it.

The Tax Court rules that a corporation doesn’t qualify as an ‘individual’ when it comes to tax troubles.

Don’t believe everything Martin Shkreli says, at least what he tweets, his lawyer told a federal judge before his fraud trial begins next week.