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BNA Tax & Accounting has introduced its first application for the RIM BlackBerry, an electronic version of its Quick Tax Reference guide.

The nonprofit Tax Foundation has introduced an online calculator that allows taxpayers to compare how they would fare if all the Bush tax cuts expired as scheduled at the end of this year.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, will face a trial before his congressional colleagues after a House investigative panel found that he violated ethics rules.

Call this a story about nurturing the goose that laid the golden egg.

President Obama signed a law Thursday that aims to bar payments to federal contractors that haven’t paid their taxes and to make sure that payments go out in the correct amounts to the right people.

The Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations on Thursday that would establish a $50 fee for individuals who apply for a preparer tax identification number.

The House passed the Senate version of the unemployment extension on Thursday, sending the bill to President Obama for his signature.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to check more often for accuracy-related penalties in future correspondence audits with taxpayers.

Hoping to get the Small Business Jobs Act passed before the August recess, Senate Democrats have modified the legislation in an effort to avoid another filibuster battle.

The Senate approved an extension on employment benefits on Wednesday evening, with the House poised to pass the extension on Thursday.

A California man has been indicted by a Las Vegas grand jury for filing false liens against employees of the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.

President Obama has signed the sweeping financial regulatory reform bill into law after a year of pushing the legislation through Congress.

John Venuti, a 62-year-old tax consultant, former principal at KPMG and former IRS tax specialist, has pleaded guilty to failing to file his tax returns for six years.

Senate Democrats achieved their goal of reaching 60 votes to invoke cloture on a bill to extend unemployment benefits through the end of November, ending a Republican filibuster.

The number of assets seized by the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division fell in 2009 and 2008, according to a new government report.

IMGCAP(1)]The escalating cost of providing group medical benefits has forced many employers to dedicate more time and energy toward gaining control over increasing premiums.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a tax lien for $1,138,760 against rap singer Lil Wayne, who is currently in jail on weapons charges.

A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., has indicted a Swiss lawyer who has been accused of helping a Virginia doctor conceal money in secret Swiss bank accounts at the British bank HSBC Holdings.

A Tennessee grand jury has indicted a former inmate charged with filing false tax returns from inside his prison cell.

President Obama called for an up-or-down vote in the Senate on extending unemployment benefits.