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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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.
June 14 -
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.
June 10 -
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.
June 7 -
Its no surprise that the experience of going through a random IRS audit affects future behavior. What is surprising is how the expected change in behaviorincreased reporting of taxable income, and presumably, increased compliancediffers from corporations to individuals, and from individuals subject to third-party information to those who are not.
June 2 -
With the average cost of a wedding soaring to $30,000, prospective brides and groomsand their parentshave a lot more to worry about than simply planning the details of the day.
May 26 -
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.
May 24 -
States are hungrier than ever, an annual sales tax survey finds
May 22 -
The Tax Court said no to an accountant and tax preparer who tried to deduct the cost of law school.
May 20 -
Cyber-liability tops the list of emerging malpractice worries
May 19 -
Although the initial flurry of publicity surrounding the leak of the Panama Papers has subsided somewhat, the release serves as a reminder that theres a real problem for taxpayers still holding offshore accounts that they havent reported, according to Ivan Golden, an attorney at Schiff Hardin LLP.
May 19 -
The Tax Court has decided in favor of a taxpayer who insisted her hair-braiding business was not a hobby.
May 17 -
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.
May 17 -
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.
May 12 -
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Trendsetter Barometer has been taking the measure of private company leaders for 20 years.
May 5 -
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.)
April 29 -
A permanent exclusion for qualified SMB stock means big change
April 29 -
Tax pros shares the different ways they relax after April 18 and how many of them get right back to work
April 28 -
The state tax arena is filled with variation, complexity, confusion and ambiguity, which has major implications for U.S. corporations, according to findings from Bloomberg BNAs 2016 Survey of State Tax Departments, conducted for the 16th consecutive year.
April 25 -
Last week the Tax Court, in a case of first impression, ruled that payments made by a decedent through a trust to pay premiums on life insurance policies obtained to fund buy-sell agreements should not be regarded as loans still owed to her estate.
April 22 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed Nevadas exercise of jurisdiction over the California Franchise Tax Board, but limited the damages that could be awarded to the amount which Nevada law would permit in a similar suit against its own agencies.
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