Practice management

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The IRS is offering tax relief for the victims of the severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides in late June in parts of West Virginia.

Many of the highest average state and local sales tax rates are found in the Southeast, according to a midyear report from the Tax Foundation.

Industry consultant Martin Bissett has tips for getting CPAs more comfortable with sales.

Yes, it’s summer, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to forget about your clients, or ease up on your plans to attract new ones.

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

The IRS shares some advice on fixing a return

Social media giant Facebook is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service over the value of intangible property it transferred to a unit in Ireland, according to published reports.

The National Taxpayer Advocate says that the 2016 filing season went “much more smoothly” than last year’s.

The Internal Revenue Service can’t always be sure that former employees’ access to systems and buildings has been revoked, according to a recent report.

The AICPA drafted a new comment letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS today, calling for a delay in the effective date of Internal Revenue Code Section 385 proposed regulations (REG-108060-15), which relates to the treatment of certain interests in corporations as stock or debt for federal tax purposes. The AICPA also urged that exceptions to the proposed regulations be provided as part of its numerous technical comments and recommendations.

Tax lawyer Kelly Phillips Erb, aka “taxgirl,” has written for The New York Times and is now a staff writer for Forbes.com, but she never set out to be a famous blogger or national thought leader.

The IRS shares some advice on fixing a return (text version)

With the regulations that once kept financial advisors and other money-management professionals on the social-media sidelines a thing of the past, the floodgate of tweets, Snaps and Instagram posts should be wide open by now. But the response has actually been quite muted.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun a new campaign to make tax preparers more aware of security risks that could expose their clients to identity theft and tax fraud.

Wells Fargo & Co. got less than it wanted in a federal tax-refund lawsuit, yet the bank’s partial victory may spur billions of dollars in similar refund claims from companies that have done repeated mergers and acquisitions, tax lawyers say.

Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi, the record five-time world player of the year, was handed a 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud by a Spanish court that he’s unlikely to have to serve.

Deloitte has been working with the United States Golf Association to help the USGA broaden the appeal of golf and understand what is drawing players to the game.

All across America, hard-working people receive their personal income tax returns and wonder why they still owe money at tax time.

UBS Group AG is fighting a demand that it provide information on French clients to tax authorities, days after Paris prosecutors separately recommended the bank go on trial for helping French citizens evade taxes.