Tax planning

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Both parties in Congress agree the U.S. Tax Code is a mess and needs to be revamped. That doesn’t mean it will happen.

Gearing up for the new repair regs

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Individuals who lost money in the stock market in 2014 may have other investment assets that have appreciated in value. These taxpayers should consider the extent to which they should sell appreciated assets before year end (if their value has peaked) and thereby offset gains with pre-existing losses.

As 2014 draws to a close, there may be more planning opportunities than ever before, but also more traps for the unwary, according to Grant Thornton LLP.

U.S. Wealth Management president and CEO John Napolitano discusses the key elements in building a holistic financial plan for clients and their families, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

Accounting and consulting firm Moss Adams LLP has released its annual Year-End Tax Planning Guide outlining some of the key tax issues and potential pitfalls for next year.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Tax prep and filing vendor TaxACT has released its 2014 federal software for 1040, 1065, 1120S, 1120 and 1041 returns.

Our new weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

H&R Block is debuting a new program to encourage consumer savings at tax time, working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. government agency charged with making financial markets work for American consumers, to encourage consumers to use tax refunds to build savings.

A tax attorney is sounding a warning about some unfavorable estate tax consequences for surviving spouses in many states across the country from the use of so-called “QTIP trusts.”

The Internal Revenue Service has released proposed regulations to address the tax treatment of distributions from designated Roth IRA accounts under tax-favored retirement plans.

Despite their high payouts, international stocks and funds can come with big tax bills, but there are ways to offset those hefty levies.

The Fifth Circuit rejected both the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Court’s valuation of art contained in an estate, finding an estate’s valuation to be supported by the evidence.

Maintaining healthy client relationships is important for CPAs, particularly when their tax clients need some help with their tax planning that may require outside expertise.

Thomson Reuters has released a tax-planning treatise for estate planners, Tax Planning for Family Wealth Transfers at Death: Analysis with Forms.

Taxpayers are expected to receive a modest amount of tax relief in 2015, thanks to the annual inflation adjustments provided under the Tax Code.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., has introduced a bill that would help low-income married couples deduct twice as much of the interest charged on their student loan debts.