Tax

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

As both major Presidential candidates’ campaigns get into full gear, some of their positions on tax have become clearer, while others are still up in the air.

The Internal Revenue Service spent $15 million on a delayed implementation of an upgraded system for handling an aspect of the Foreign Account Tax and Compliance Act, but the software did not deliver the expected business results, according to a new report.

Hillary Clinton wants roughly $550 billion in new taxes and fees over the next decade—affecting investment partnerships, large estates and banks—that have received little to no public discussion from her campaign, a report from a Washington-based policy group shows.

Year-end planning through the rearview mirror

An Internal Revenue Service revenue officer has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for filing tax returns using taxpayers’ identities and failing to report income he received from an unauthorized tax business.

Donald Trump used a charitable foundation he controls as a "personal ATM machine," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday, escalating his party’s attack on the Republican presidential nominee over reports that he mixed charitable and business interests.

Assets in college savings plans named for an obscure section of the Internal Revenue Service code hit a new record this summer, totaling $266.2 billion. That’s up 5.1 percent from a year ago, when assets in the accounts stood at $253.2 billion.

Vertex has released a suite of scalable tax solutions for the Oracle ERP Cloud suitable for companies of any size.

Win or lose, CPAs providing financial and tax advice to their clients might be in treacherous territory.