Corporate taxes

The Internal Revenue Service is taking a new approach to tax compliance, with a series of 13 initiatives aimed at cracking down on tax evasion.

W-2 scams, e-mail scams, phone scams, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

House Ways and Committee chairman Kevin Brady—fresh from a public-relations blitz aimed at selling a controversial plan for taxing U.S. businesses’ domestic sales and imports—now has to persuade his fellow Republicans in Congress.

Congress and President Trump have a number of changes in mind, from expensing capital investments to border adjustability.

President promises a "very major" border tax and said he would cut regulations by 75 percent at a breakfast meeting with business leaders.

Donald Trump to the rescue? The $8.55 trillion bond market has bucked concerns over mounting company indebtedness and so far resisted fears about the knock-on effects of the potential unraveling of the 35-year-old bull-run in government debt.

A number of code changes go into effect for the first time this year or apply for the first time for tax returns filed this year.

Even if there are no new laws from President-elect Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress, practitioners still will have to cope with a number of changes that go into effect for the first time this year or apply for the first time for tax returns filed this year.

Profitable companies that pay little in income taxes aren’t necessarily indulging in risky tax strategies, according to a new academic study.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is bringing aboard more than 600 tax professionals from General Electric and acquiring GE’s tax technologies, the firm announced Thursday.

The exit package Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay Rex Tillerson if he’s confirmed as secretary of state is structured to preserve roughly $180 million in deferred compensation for him—and might let him avoid an immediate federal income tax bill of as much as $72 million, according to tax specialists who have reviewed the plan.

A group of Democrats in Congress introduced a bill Tuesday to stop unlimited tax write-offs for performance-based executive pay.

Car maker, fresh from canceling a Mexico factory Donald Trump criticized, expects the incoming president to deliver on promises of tax reform that will benefit U.S. manufacturers.

Chief financial officers predict less gridlock in Congress on tax reform, according to a new survey by Deloitte.

The Dallas-based tax services firm has acquired Shiv Om Consultants, bolstering its offerings for the oil and gas industry.

Alphabet Inc.’s search engine company saved billions worldwide taxes by moving 14.9 billion euros ($15.5 billion) to a Bermuda shell company, new regulatory filings in the Netherlands reveal.

Tax columnists George Jones and Mark Luscombe of Wolters Kluwer put together a list of important changes from this year that will carry over into the next.

For 2017, carryover from 2016 not only includes the usual reporting and compliance issues related to the tax year just ending, but also those tax changes and issues begun in 2016 that are by no means finished at year's end.

Apple Inc. has set up a court battle with European Union competition watchdogs who ordered Ireland to claw back a record 13 billion euros ($13.6 billion) in unpaid taxes.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of retribution against companies that move jobs out of the U.S. is already having the effect he probably intended: some business leaders are pausing plans to seek foreign addresses.