Practice management

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenged an Internal Revenue Service rule change it claims improperly stymies the ability of U.S. companies to shift their headquarters overseas to shelter global profits from American tax collectors.

Your firm could be in a heap of trouble if you tweet about #TeamUSA, post a photo to Facebook of the Olympic rings or even mention the term “Olympics” from your firm’s accounts.

There once was a time, after the Tax Reform Act of 1986, when the U.S. corporate tax rate was at the low end of corporate tax rates among industrialized economies.

The Internal Revenue Service is making some important changes in the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number program that will require many ITIN holders to renew their numbers under a law passed by Congress last December.

Back-to-school time in Massachusetts isn’t just celebrated by stir-crazy parents. It’s also a chance to shop sales tax free—or at least it was, until the state decided not to reinstate its sales-tax holiday this August for the first time since 2009 due to slowing state revenue.

It's not exactly as addictive as the first season of NPR's "Serial," but that's OK. Sageworks has premiered a three-part podcast series on how to grow an accounting firm.

Internal Revenue Service employees pushed too hard to impose levies on elderly people’s Social Security benefits, leading to economic hardship for some low-income people with tax debts, according to a new report.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued proposed regulations that would eliminate a tax-planning strategy for minimizing estate and gift taxes.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new regulations that could change the rules for reporting qualified tuition and related expenses for students.

Transfer pricing documentation rules have come to the fore with the United Kingdom’s Brexit.

The Internal Revenue Service is seeing a big increase this summer in automated phone calls from con artists pretending to work for the IRS calling innocent taxpayers demanding overdue taxes.

Mortgage interest deduction limit applies on per taxpayer basis.

A Swiss banker used a toothpaste tube a decade ago to smuggle diamonds into the U.S. Prosecutors now say an Israeli bank employee devised a new way to help a U.S. client hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service: She carried account statements into the country on a USB flash drive concealed in her necklace.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett ripped into Republican Donald Trump Monday over his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies, and his attack on a fallen soldier’s family, repeating a famous phrase from the McCarthy era, “have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Singer and rapper Iggy Azalea is reportedly facing a second tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service for $269,980.20 in unpaid federal income taxes from 2015.

I have a client who owns considerable real estate that her son manages. The son actually does a very good job maintaining the property, growing rents, and keeping vacancies to a minimum.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

How some women leaders have guided CPA firms toward growing meaningful programs.

Many taxpayers have multiple Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k) accounts, and as the baby boom generation enters its retirement years, more clients than ever are going to need advice from a tax professional about how to handle the complicated rules for required minimum distributions from the accounts once they finally retire.