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 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 -
Young businesses have until Dec. 31, 2017, to offset research costs from 2016 against their payroll tax liability.
December 12 -
For Carl J. Marinello II, the omnibus clause, or “uber” clause, in Code section 7212(a) had the effect of turning his failures to file tax returns over a period of years from misdemeanors into a felony.
December 6 -
Potential code changes call for action before Dec. 30.
December 5 -
The tax reform bills passed by the House, and soon to be passed by the Senate, have many similarities. And you can count on measures that are the same in both bills to end up in the final version to be signed by the President.
November 30 -
The state is trying to duplicate its success with movies by offering breaks to the music business.
November 28
