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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Non-profitsA provision in the budget act could eliminate tax on their excess business holdings.
March 6 -
GRTs are being considered across the country as an improvement on state corporate income taxes -- but they come with serious issues.
February 27 -
Tax professionals are looking to the IRS for guidance on the new Section 199A.
February 27 -
There’s a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that is just now beginning to garner awareness among state governments and investors.
February 13 -
A Florida CPA was sentenced in federal court in Boston for multiple counts of tax fraud and obstructing the Internal Revenue Code.
February 12 -
Changes to the treatment of alimony will have a big impact.
February 6 -
The widow of a country music producer who continued to operate, at a loss, an establishment to encourage songwriters was not able to deduct her losses in excess of her income from the activity.
January 31 -
The deduction under new Code Sec. 199A comes with a host of calculations.
January 30 -
Keeping up with the latest legislative changes is putting serious pressure on the cash-strapped, staff-starved service.
January 30 -
The outlook on state and local tax for the coming year
January 30 -
Dual U.S.-Canadian citizen with private corporations need to pay attention.
January 23 -
The Supreme Court may be on the verge of tidying up an issue that has vexed states since the beginning of online sales—the attempt to collect tax on the sales by remote sellers into their states.
January 16 -
The service claimed it had six years to collect, but the three-year limit was upheld.
January 16 -
They dodged a number of bullets, and other code changes could spur more giving, experts say.
January 15 -
Confusion over reform legislation will bring clients in -- but it won't guarantee that they return.
January 9 -
A roundup of influential and important legal decisions from the past year.
January 2 -
A High Court case examines what, exactly, ‘impeding or obstructing’ the IRS means.
December 27 -
The GOP tax reform act will create plenty of work for practitioners.
December 19 -
Assuming the GOP bill passes, it will still need to be implemented, and a technical corrections bill issued.
December 16
