Practice management

President Obama signed into law Monday a bill that provides tax credits for hiring veterans and repeals a 3 percent tax withholding requirement on government contractors.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman told students that the Tax Code has grown far too complex in recent years.

A longtime promoter of trust packages who promised to shield her customers’ assets from taxes has been sentenced to a seven-year prison term.

The House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing to consider a move to a territorial corporate tax system that would tax only the income earned inside the U.S.

A group of millionaires visited the halls of Congress in an effort to convince lawmakers to raise tax rates on incomes of $1 million a year or more.

A 2008 Senate report estimated the costs of non-compliance by taxpayers using offshore bank accounts to be at least $100 billion annually.

A pair of reports from IRS advisory and watchdog groups outline a set of priorities for the agency, including remote work, uncertain tax positions and security.

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation repealing the 3 percent withholding mandate on government contractors, along with a tax credit for hiring veterans.

Fiducial Business Centers, a provider of tax, bookkeeping and financial planning services in the U.S. said it has acquired Springfield, Ill.-based Funeral Directors of America and Funeral Management Services, for undisclosed terms.

The November 23 deadline for Congress’s deficit reduction “supercommittee” is only about a week away and effectively a few days less.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss the relative unpopularity of the Small Business Health Tax Credit that is part of the health care reform law.

Grant Thornton LLP plans to begin emphasizing growth as its new “brand focus,” positioning the firm as an organization that can help business clients grow despite the challenges of today’s economy.

The deficit reduction “supercommittee” in Congress appears increasingly unlikely to make any decisions on taxes before its impending deadline.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new revenue procedure that provides a safe harbor for Native American tribes to establish trusts for tribal members who are minors or legally incompetent for the distribution of gambling revenues under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

A new report from a Republican lawmaker details how, under the current Tax Code, the federal government is giving away billions of dollars to millionaires, subsidizing their lifestyles with taxes paid by the less well-to-do.

One of Switzerland’s oldest banks, Clariden Leu, has become the latest to cooperate with U.S. tax authorities.

Confidence in the U.S. economy has plunged this past quarter among the CEOs and CFOs of private companies, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A retired special agent with the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division has pleaded guilty to charges of transporting a California woman across state lines to Las Vegas for the purpose of prostitution.

Among the themes that IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has emphasized since his swearing in is the balancing of the agency’s compliance function with its service mission.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue ruling permitting an employer that is using an accrual method of accounting to take a deduction in the current year for a fixed amount of bonuses payable to a group of employees, even though the employer does not know which of the employees will receive a bonus or the amount of any particular bonus until after the end of the taxable year.