Tax practice

The IRS2Go app can now be used to make payments, as well as check refund status and receive tax tips.

Bloomberg BNA has released a report on projected 2016 tax rates, providing a detailed forecast of inflation-adjusted tax items.

Thomson Reuters is forecasting the tax rates for next year and predicting they will be adjusted upward in line with modest inflation.

The Internal Revenue Service has set the special per diem rates starting Oct. 1, 2015, which taxpayers can use to substantiate the amount of expenses for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses when traveling away from home.

The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee plans to hold votes Thursday on several Republican-sponsored bills that would make five temporary tax breaks into permanent parts of the Tax Code.

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

The American Institute of CPAs wrote Congress to warn that a bill grants the IRS too much authority to regulate tax preparers.

Yahoo! Inc.’s plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. were left in doubt after IRS officials outlined new concerns.

Effective Jan. 1, 2016, the IRS will reject any checks received for over $99,999,999.00.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding corporations and partnerships that took extensions to file income tax returns that they have until September 15, to file.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

It’s not likely to be as big a summer blockbuster as “Jurassic World,” but a new documentary about the carried interest tax break has just premiered.

The IRS has issued proposed regulations that provide guidance to U.S. taxpayers who receive gifts or inheritances from certain individuals who have expatriated.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in Congress are urging the Treasury Department to crack down on corporations that use tax inversions to merge with foreign companies to lower their tax rates and publish a shame list of them.

Independent tax preparation businesses face challenges of fierce competition and seasonality, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School.

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA State Tax Analyzer, a multi-state, multi-year, multi-scenario state tax analysis tool for corporate income taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Automated Collection System lacks key controls for selecting which delinquent tax cases to pursue, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service says employers can now do a trial run of their electronic form filing for reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act, giving nervous employers and their benefit advisers a way to test for readiness in advance of the reporting deadlines.

The Internal Revenue Service cannot readily identify American citizens and resident aliens working in a foreign country, along with resident aliens working in the United States, who may have improperly claimed exemption from U.S. Social Security taxes, according to a new report.

The IRS reports that it processed 140,024,061 returns from last season through July 30.