Roger Russell is a senior editor at Accounting Today. He focuses on tax developments and compliance, and professional liability issues affecting CPAs. He is a tax attorney and has been a researcher and analyst at several major tax publishing companies.
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NCCPAP’s June 2022 Tax Update reflects progress on a number of fronts at the Internal Revenue Service.
July 12 -
Investment properties are a very different class from stocks, bonds and the like, one that often isn't managed with the same discipline.
July 6 -
Lower courts have disagreed whether non-willful failure-to-disclose penalties are on per-account or a per-form basis.
June 28 -
The responsibility for collecting sales tax for businesses that sell remotely has become a ‘nightmare,’ according to a Finance Committee hearing.
June 27 -
The only clear theme from a recent Senate hearing was the lack of certainty around when a retailer should start collecting tax.
June 22 -
The pandemic and new IRS priorities are creating new opportunities for practitioners.
June 20 -
IRS statistics paint a picture of how small businesses were impacted by COVID-19 in 2020, and more.
June 14 -
With deadlines approaching for progress on an international agreement, different tax jurisdictions are chipping away at various obstacles to their adoption.
June 9 -
With social media and the internet multiplying the ways people can give, the rules are more important than ever.
June 2 -
A federal appeals court has affirmed a district court’s decision that gave priority to an Internal Revenue Service levy on a decedent’s estate over the decedent’s children’s rights under Louisiana law.
May 31 -
'There have been some tax seasons when I questioned my intelligence for choosing this profession, but this one didn’t give me that feeling,' said one preparer.
April 28 -
March saw the release of an OECD framework and a Biden executive order that set the tone for digital assets.
April 26 -
The unanimous decision overturned a Tax Court refusal to hear a taxpayer’s challenge to an IRS assessment that came one day late.
April 26 -
Yet another district court has ruled against a federal ban on states’ lowering taxes with pandemic relief money.
April 19 -
Clients who moved their work between states due to the pandemic may find taxing authorities eyeing them more closely.
April 12 -
The state’s Supreme Court agreed with the satellite radio company’s method of sourcing its subscription revenue.
April 5 -
A district court has vacated IRS Notice 2016-66, which designated micro-captive insurance arrangements as “transactions of interest,” and thus reportable.
March 31 -
Backlogs at the IRS and bearing bad news can be challenging, but it’s no more than preparers expected.
March 31 -
The service had denied deductions for eco-friendly model home because of occasional personal use by the owners.
March 29 -
COVID and other worldwide issues led to major changes in a wide range of taxes, according to a new report.
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