Roger Russell

Today’s prototypical small business owner is changing in terms of age, ethnicity, gender and other characteristics.

Options for tax reform are legion — the missing ingredient is leadership

Ransomware—malware that can block access to a computer system until a ransom is paid to the perpetrator—is targeting professionals in ways that are likely to cause the unsuspecting to open an infected file.

This may be the last time you see a reminder that the FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) filing deadline of June 30 is fast approaching. That’s because, beginning in 2017, the annual FBAR filing will coincide with the April 15 income tax filing deadline.

Payments that a business makes are generally deductible if they are “ordinary and necessary” under Internal Revenue Service regulations unless, that is, they are specifically denied deductibility.

The Tax Court has decided in favor of Medtronic in its dispute over the transfer pricing methodology used by the IRS in valuing the contributions of the medical device maker's Puerto Rican affiliate.

This year, for the first time ever, employers will begin receiving notices from the Federally Facilitated Marketplace indicating that one of their employees signed up for health coverage through the Marketplace and received advanced premium subsidies for that coverage.

The U.S. Tax Court gave a taxpayer extra time to file a petition after a winter storm forced the closure one day last year of all federal offices, including the Tax Court.

It’s no surprise that the experience of going through a random IRS audit affects future behavior. What is surprising is how the expected change in behavior—increased reporting of taxable income, and presumably, increased compliance—differs from corporations to individuals, and from individuals subject to third-party information to those who are not.

With the average cost of a wedding soaring to $30,000, prospective brides and grooms—and their parents—have a lot more to worry about than simply planning the details of the day.

A federal appeals court has reversed the Tax Court, handing a supermarket chain a victory in its attempt to deduct rewards that shoppers had earned but had not yet redeemed at the end of the year.

States are hungrier than ever, an annual sales tax survey finds

The Tax Court said no to an accountant and tax preparer who tried to deduct the cost of law school.

Cyber-liability tops the list of emerging malpractice worries

Although the initial flurry of publicity surrounding the leak of the Panama Papers has subsided somewhat, the release serves as a reminder that there’s a real problem for taxpayers still holding offshore accounts that they haven’t reported, according to Ivan Golden, an attorney at Schiff Hardin LLP.

The Tax Court has decided in favor of a taxpayer who insisted her hair-braiding business was not a hobby.

Timely and meaningful access to the Internal Revenue Service is what is most important to taxpayers and tax preparers, according to Troy K. Lewis, chair of the American Institute of CPAs’ Tax Executive Committee.

Sometimes, the elevation of form over substance can be costly for those who commit a “foot fault” in structuring a transaction in the tax arena.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Trendsetter Barometer has been taking the measure of private company leaders for 20 years.

Not everyone is a fan of Congress’ plan to have the Internal Revenue Service use outside agencies to collect unpaid taxes. (See “Highway Bill Would Revive Private Collection of Tax Debts.”)