Tax Strategies

The Internal Revenue Service responded Tuesday to calls for extending more tax deadlines by giving taxpayers until May 17 to make IRA and HSA contributions and file some refund claims.

With the passage of so much tax legislation over the past several years, there is tremendous opportunity for savings and planning.

Advisors are urging clients to make tax-planning moves this year to preserve the preferential capital gains rate and turbocharge business deductions.

More than a half century after Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, the new administration plans a mass expansion of government spending and a revamp of the Tax Code.

10 major developments, from the pandemic and Wayfair to sin taxes, that are all likely to play major roles.

Announcement 2021-7(1) lets taxpayers deduct money spent on masks, wipes and other supplies in certain circumstances.

The Senate Budget Committee chairman wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 35 percent.

A conservative think tank is throwing its support behind proposals long associated with progressives like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders: taxing stock trades and breaking up Wall Street investment banks.

The Treasury Secretary said the limitation on state and local tax write-offs causes 'disparate treatment' across taxpayers.

Democrats will likely prove successful in raising individual income tax rates and in strengthening audits of wealthy Americans as they work on overhauling the U.S. Tax Code in coming months.