Tax Strategies

The House has passed housing legislation to help homeowners threatened by foreclosure, including tax benefits to sweeten the package.

The Treasury Department paid out an additional 22.18 million economic stimulus payments, or tax rebates, to American households last week, for a total of $20.138 billion.

The Nebraska Board of Public Accountancy has launched a service to enable CPAs and CPA firms to renew their licenses via the Web.

Cindy McCain, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has refused to release her tax returns.

Much of the excess tax collected by the Internal Revenue Service from businesses for telephone excise taxes is not being claimed or refunded, according to a new report.

The New York State Senate has agreed to suspend the gasoline tax for the summer, as the topic continues to be the talk of presidential candidates.

The Justice Department has sued a South Holland, Ill., tax preparer and her company to bar them from preparing tax returns, claiming they are responsible for more than $12 million in tax losses for the government.

A new poll shows that most Americans don't want state or federal tax agencies to prepare their taxes.

A merger between two corporate tax prep firms in Australia aims to give new competition to the Big Four.

Senate Democrats have proposed legislation that would roll back $17 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas companies and impose a 25 percent windfall profits tax on the companies.