Roger Russell

Lawsuits are never fun, particularly for CPA defendants who stand to lose money, reputation and time.

If you have discussed the idea of setting up a family limited partnership with any of your clients in the past, now might be a good time to revisit the subject.

Tax prep software vendors on what's coming up, from the threat of DIY to the promise of the cloud

Practitioners school Congress on tax complexity

The Boston Bruins hockey team is taking the Internal Revenue Service to court over its habit of deducting 100 percent of the cost of away-game meals.

The Tax Court has held that the “unallocated alimony/child support payments” by a doctor to his ex-wife were non-taxable.

Bloomberg BNA has released a new edition of Unclaimed Property, its Tax Management Portfolio on escheatment and unclaimed property laws.

Becoming a defendant in a lawsuit is not a pleasant experience, and the risk to accountants has risen dramatically in recent years.

A federal appeals court has reversed a Tax Court decision in favor of an unmarried couple, finding the mortgage debt limit provision in the Tax Code applies on a per-taxpayer basis and allowing each of them to deduct mortgage interest up to the $1.1 million limit.

It’s bound to happen. Your client gets a letter from the IRS—they’re being audited.

If residents of a state change domicile to another state and earn income in the new state, are they off the hook for state income tax in the state where they no longer reside?

Congress has effectively overruled the Supreme Court by extending the time period for auditing certain types of tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service is really starting to tighten its rules on who can and cannot represent clients

Is it too early to start thinking about tax extenders? Not according to Kathleen King, managing director of Alvarez & Marshall Taxand’s Washington, D.C., office.

Takeaways from the first season of the repair regulations

In a rebuke to the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax Court has invalidated regulations under Section 482 of the Tax Code that require the sharing of stock-based compensation.

In a coordinated broadside at the complexity of the tax code for small business owners, both the House and Senate held hearings Wednesday with similar themes.

Happy Asker, the founder of a pizza chain based in Farmington Hills, Mich., that operated restaurants throughout Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, was sentenced last week to 50 months in prison for income and employment tax fraud.

“In every country I’ve been in, real estate is the best tax shelter,” said Tom Wheelwright, CPA, an advisor and speaker at Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad seminars, and a contributor to Donald Trump’s Wealth Builders Program.

More than 80 percent of large corporations have been offered incentives by a state or local economic official for a new development or corporate relocation, according to a new study by Bloomberg BNA.