Tax practice

(Bloomberg) The U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service said they are extending some Affordable Care Act reporting deadlines to help companies meet the requirements.

Five more Swiss banks have agreed to pay penalties to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes, pushing the number of accords to 73 and total payments to more than $1 billion.

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

Tax provisions in the new transportation funding act

The Affordable Care Act will continue to provide new surprises for tax preparers and taxpayers for the foreseeable future.

The IRS Return Preparer Office announced that it will mail practitioners a number of letters on Tuesday, Dec. 29.

Elevating your clients’ experience during tax season

Once, servicing “tax tools” meant math and a pencil sharpener – but these days it means a huge amount of technology that you may use fluently, but not necessarily understand. How can you truly trust it?

It’s the time of year when investors examine their portfolio and seek to harvest built-in tax losses. But short sellers who wish to harvest their losses should keep a close eye on the calendar.

The IRS has not established a service-wide approach to managing effective authentication processes and procedures for individual taxpayers’ identities, according to a new report.

It’s time to revamp the Earned Income Tax Credit, tax professionals say -– though they don’t necessarily agree on how.

Bay Area rapper Kreayshawn tweeted out her tax troubles after discovering that the IRS had apparently cleaned out her bank reports.

Ineffective monitoring of refunds and a computer programming error caused the Internal Revenue Service to issue more than $46 million in erroneous refunds, according to a new report.

The IRS has announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning Jan. 1, 2016, as in the previous quarter.

The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting individual tax returns on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, it announced today.

The omnibus spending bill signed into law last week gives the Internal Revenue Service an additional $290 million in funds – but it must be spent only taxpayer services and efforts against tax-related identity theft.

The PTIN system will be down for approximately two to three hours for necessary maintenance beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 21, as well as a few days over New Year's.

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 extends a number of important tax breaks, and makes many of them permanent.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes.