Tax

Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing hiking taxes on executive retirement plans and using the extra revenue to aid struggling worker pension plans.

The ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee proposed an amendment that would stop the panel from even thinking about taxing trades of stocks, bonds and derivatives.

Abeles and Hoffman adds four to ownership group; Lumsden McCormick promotes five to manager; and more personnel news.

Spook central; short of a grand; a low bar; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Erin Collins, who formerly worked at KPMG and the IRS, will lead the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

A brewing fight about which country has the right to tax some of the world’s most profitable companies, including Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, could devolve into a multi-front trade war, regardless of whether President Donald Trump is still in the White House.

Here’s hoping that fewer last-minute changes will make for easier filing.

Maryland and Nebraska may pioneer digital advertising taxes.

Fraud and execs; IRS tries to net non-filers; marketing media; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS also announced the 13`1 tax clinics that will be receiving $11.6 million in matching grants for 2020.