Tax Strategies

The Internal Revenue Service has given Section 529 tuition programs the ability to change their investment strategies more frequently in response to the financial crisis.

Lawmakers have passed more than 100 new tax law changes that could help millions of individual taxpayers save money on their taxes this coming season.

The Internal Revenue Service collected about $3 billion less in revenue from audits this year after assigning staff to work on processing economic stimulus payments.

New York Governor David Paterson is trying to close a record deficit of $15.4 billion with 137 new tax and fee increases, including a new tax on sugary sodas.

The National Retail Federation has asked President-elect Barack Obama to include a series of sales tax holidays within the economic stimulus legislation he is drafting with Congress.

There are possible tax strategies that are particularly suited to the times that we are in. Here are two that I keep seeing, with the latest in a press release from a major tax publisher. According to analysts with the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, C corporations may secure a refund of overpaid estimated taxes, or use projected current-year NOL to offset taxes owed for the previous year.

The Internal Revenue Service is changing its lockbox payment addresses in five states for individual taxpayers and 23 states for business taxpayers in the New Year.

Edward Mendlowitz, a partner at accounting firm WithumSmith+Brown, outlined a series of tax strategies that could help offset the staggering losses incurred from investments with Bernard Madoff’s scandal-scarred securities firm.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed regulations that provide rules for assessing penalties against tax advisors who fail to file a true and complete tax return on a timely basis.

Rap singer Doug E. Fresh is facing tax liens from the federal and state government, along with foreclosure of three homes.