Tax Strategies

A new website is urging “Americans who have the means” to donate their Bush tax cuts to a group of charities.

BNA Software has released a new version of its income tax-planning application to help the clients of accountants and tax practitioners plan around the changes in the tax cut extension law.

Changes to tax provisions in a bill providing health coverage for 9/11 emergency responders helped enable the legislation to pass Congress despite the opposition of some leading Republican lawmakers.

Vice President Joe Biden indicated the Obama administration intends to limit the newly extended tax cuts when they come up again for renewal in 2012.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has added global financial data from Reuters and expanded report-writing features to its transfer pricing software for multinational companies.

Intuit has been closely monitoring congressional and IRS activity on the tax extension legislation passed by Congress late Thursday night and said it has completed various scenario plans and programmed its professional tax software applications to be prepared for all the latest tax law changes.

With just weeks to go before the end of the year, Congress has cleared tax relief legislation extending the Bush-era individual and capital gains and dividend tax cuts for all taxpayers for two years, as well as a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits.

The House approved an $858 billion extension of the Bush-era tax rates and unemployment benefits late Thursday night, a day after the Senate approved the bill, sending the bill to President Obama’s desk.

Nonprofit charitable tax-exempt organizations filed 313,121 information returns for tax year 2007, according to new statistics released by the Internal Revenue Service, an increase of 4 percent from 2006.

The American Institute of CPAs has launched a new public service tax website to help taxpayers better understand how the federal tax system works and connect with a CPA for tax help.