Tax Strategies

CCH has released a new tax briefing offering insights and analysis to assist tax practitioners and their clients with year-end tax planning.

Mary Kopczynski, CEO of 8of9 Consulting, discusses the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, and its implications, delays and controversies, in the first of a two-part interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Thomson Reuters’ WorldTrade Executive brand has released the latest edition of Global Transfer Pricing Solutions, a book that covers regulatory changes and provides analysis in the field of transfer pricing.

Legislation approved by the Senate earlier this year to require online businesses to collect sales taxes from out-of-state customers could have a unfair impact on businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans and other groups, according to a new study.

As 2013 comes to an end, employers, employees and self-employed individuals should make sure they are complying with the new 0.9 percent additional Medicare tax, according to Thomson Reuters.

Check out the digital edition of the October 2013 issue of Accounting Today.

Mr. and Mrs. Friedberg were just another couple of average married taxpayers like any other married taxpayers happily minding their own business until the IRS decided to wage a war of terror on them.

Thomson Reuters has released a new report on the Internal Revenue Service’s guidance on same-sex marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down section three of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.

Unlike year-end 2012, planning for year-end 2013 is not burdened by the uncertainties over the extension of the Bush tax cuts or the political theater that took place surrounding last New Year's Day. Nevertheless, enough change and uncertainty remains that impacts year-end 2013 tax strategies to warrant special attention by taxpayers and their tax advisors.

Much attention has been focused on the postponement of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate—the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide them with health insurance or face significant fines, which the Obama Administration delayed for one year.