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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A Florida accountant lost his battle to prove his yacht charter business was operated for profit.
April 30 -
This provision of the TJCA gives ordinary workers better access to an executive perk.
April 30 -
The Senate looks to ease the burden on taxpayers who travel to work in multiple states.
April 23 -
A federal appeals court reversed a district court’s judgment, holding that taxpayers could not rely on the common law mailbox rule to show that an amended return had been timely filed in order to claim a tax refund.
April 19 -
The justices questioned a state’s ability to tax income from a trust based on the beneficiaries residing there before taking any distributions.
April 17 -
Argued a century ago, Eisner v. Macomber helped establish the treatment of dividends.
April 15 -
It’s tax time for everyone, but for entrepreneurs in the rapidly growing cannabis business, it’s a particular challenge.
April 9 -
A federal appeals court has overruled the Tax Court and sided with a taxpayer who overpaid her taxes and later filed for a refund.
April 8 -
Better client management processes will lead to a happier tax season.
April 2 -
Preparer reactions to filing season this year are … complicated.
April 2 -
The Tax Court has ruled that a whistleblower may challenge an IRS award decision when the whistleblower provides new information in a later supplemental form.
March 29 -
The next steps in the ongoing responses to the Supreme Court’s South Dakota v. Wayfair decision.
March 29 -
These red flags always draw the IRS’s attention.
March 26 -
In a case involving treaty rights versus state taxation, the justices narrowly decided in favor of tribal members.
March 20 -
Pushing back Tax Day would bring a number of unintended consequences.
March 19 -
The Tax Court recently ruled against a married couple that tried to garnish the salary of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay their tax bills.
March 13 -
Between the shutdown and the TCJA, advocates want more time for filing.
March 12 -
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has given the IRS a victory in its quest to charge fees.
March 6 -
In a 7-2 decision, the justices held that a railroad’s payment to an employee for working time lost due to an on-the-job injury is taxable compensation.
March 5 -
Execs in a new BDO survey don’t see the economy staying strong beyond two years.
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