Tax

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax professionals to register for its 2016 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums, where they can earn up to 19 continuing professional education credits.

The IRS has been so slow to adapt to the rapidly emerging peer-to-peer economy that billions of dollars in taxable income a year are probably going unreported every year, according to a study being delivered to Congress this week.

States are hungrier than ever, an annual sales tax survey finds

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including the most brazen fake business name in tax fraud history.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Congratulations, now that you’ve made it through the end of busy season and managed to put all of those long evenings in the office in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get back to business. Now is a great time to revisit your firm’s strategic plan for 2016.

Now that it’s springtime and the birds are chirping, it’s important for your tax clients to consider education-related expenses when applying for federal financial aid.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service about Notice 2015-54, Transfers of Property to Partnerships with Related Foreign Partners.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to begin testing as early as next week a more secure version of the online “Get Transcript” app that was taken down last year when the IRS discovered it had been used by hackers to access hundreds of thousands of tax returns.

Although the initial flurry of publicity surrounding the leak of the Panama Papers has subsided somewhat, the release serves as a reminder that there’s a real problem for taxpayers still holding offshore accounts that they haven’t reported, according to Ivan Golden, an attorney at Schiff Hardin LLP.