Corporate taxes

As an accounting professional, you know there are potential tax-related upsides and downsides for every type of business entity.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin weighed in on the debate about a carbon tax in Davos, saying technological developments would make it redundant.

Having just persuaded France to hold off on a digital tax that would hurt its biggest technology firms, the U.S. is facing a similar threat from another part of Europe.

The U.S. and Europe are making progress toward a global pact on the taxation of digital services, with France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, saying on Thursday that American officials agreed on a blueprint for negotiations.

Even as France indicated a willingness to postpone a disputed tax on technology companies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dangled the prospect of retaliatory tariffs on automobile imports if the issue isn’t resolved.

A group of Senate Democrats has launched an investigation of the regulatory process for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the ways in which exceptions were made for corporations as a result of fierce lobbying with the passage of the 2017 tax overhaul.

The Internal Revenue Service said it may provide relief from double taxation in some circumstances to corporations because of the repatriation tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Less than a thousand businesses were affected by an OMB determination involving the refundable corporate minimum tax credit.

Savings for the top six U.S. banks from President Donald Trump’s signature tax overhaul accelerated last year, now topping $32 billion as the lenders curbed new borrowing, pared jobs and ramped up payouts to shareholders.

France and the U.S. will seek a compromise on the taxation of digital services over the next two weeks in an effort to avoid an escalation in the transatlantic trade dispute.

As tax authorities around the world crack down on corporate tax avoidance strategies, demand for transfer pricing advice is fueling growth in advisory services.

Companies are using “clawbacks” to recover incentive compensation that was given to executives through erroneous financial reporting while lowering their effective tax rates, but clawback adoption could be having some negative consequences, according to a new study.

Data from the IRS helps set the stage for a global battle over taxing businesses.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act puts a whole new spin on an old strategy.

Among other things, the IRS’s proposals offer a new set of definitions.

This provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ‘threw everything upside down,’ says one expert.

The Global Reporting Initiative has issued a new international tax reporting standard that aims to ensure multinational companies are much clearer about how much they pay in taxes, and where.

The Global Intangible Low Taxed Income has created a lot of challenges for taxpayers, since it was instituted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

The Internal Revenue Service has a message for companies that owe taxes on overseas profits: Auditors are closely watching.

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to pare back regulations championed by President Barack Obama that were intended to prevent American companies from moving profits offshore to avoid taxes.