Tax Strategies

President Donald Trump’s tax law could make divorce an even more miserable experience, according to a new survey of the nation’s top matrimonial attorneys.

As U.S. banks were tallying up the billions of dollars in extra profits they’ll reap from the sweeping tax cuts signed into law by President Donald Trump, they were quietly delivering unwelcome news to local governments: The interest rates on their loans were about to go up.

Bloomberg Tax released a new line of corporate tax software Wednesday known as Advantage, providing technology for handling fixed assets, federal and state tax, net operating losses, provision analysis, and sales and use tax rates.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Internal Revenue Service will issue guidance within the next two weeks to prevent hedge-fund managers from dodging new tax rules on carried-interest profits.

With the season underway, preparers are still fine-tuning software, workflow and clients’ ability to realize that reform generally doesn’t affect the returns worked on now.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents asked its tax experts the best practices clients should follow when working with a tax professional, and gave some helpful advice from an online survey whose results were released Monday.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving homeowners whose homes were damaged by deteriorating concrete foundations more time on a safe harbor it issued last year.

President Trump just signed and enacted a two-year budget bill that extends government funding through March 23 and also retroactively extends numerous tax breaks that had previously expired.

The bipartisan budget deal signed into law Friday by President Trump contains 36 tax extenders that had expired at the end of 2016 and makes them retroactive to 2017.

Tucked inside the bipartisan budget deal are a slew of tax breaks for NASCAR, Hollywood, racehorses and rum. And beer, too.