Tax practice

Twenty-six percent of employers offering health benefits could be subject to the Affordable Care Act’s tax on high-cost health plans, also known as the “Cadillac plan” tax, in 2018 unless they make changes to their plans, according to a new analysis.

The owner of Mystic Pizza, the Connecticut pizzeria made famous by the 1988 Julia Roberts movie of the same name, has been sentenced to over a year in prison on charges of tax evasion and structuring cash transactions.

Tax prep software vendors on what's coming up, from the threat of DIY to the promise of the cloud

Congress has passed a variety of tax provisions so far in 2015

The Georgia Society of CPAs recently met with officials from the Georgia Department of Revenue at the GSCPA’s Learning Center to discuss several issues affecting tax practitioners and their clients.

The Internal Revenue Service is sending letters to taxpayers who received advance payments of the premium tax credit in 2014, but who have not yet filed their tax returns.

Congressional stalling on tax reform, currency fluctuations and mixed signals from the Federal Reserve on an interest-rate hike are making strategic planning difficult for CFOs, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

A group of law firms has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of an estimated 330,000 taxpayers who were affected by a data breach in the IRS’s online Get Transcript application.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed tax liens totaling more than $4.5 million against the rapper T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, and his wife “Tiny,” singer-songwriter Tameka Cottle.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter Monday to four federal service centers asking for clarification on reporting practices for federal employees’ wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration and state tax agencies in order to safeguard against tax-related identity theft.

For a moment there, Donald Trump was starting to sound a lot like Bernie Sanders.

The Internal Revenue Service’s computer systems are failing to send some taxpayers notices of additional tax levies, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Appeals has the authority to abate certain taxpayer penalties when the abatement has been denied by other IRS offices, but a new report questions whether the office is providing enough justification for its decisions.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Employers and taxpayers now have access to recorded webinars from the IRS about the Affordable Care Act's provisions and related tax requirements.

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA Sales Tax Rates, a Web-based solution for up-to-the-minute sales and use tax rates.

Practitioners school Congress on tax complexity

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

The Boston Bruins hockey team is taking the Internal Revenue Service to court over its habit of deducting 100 percent of the cost of away-game meals.

The IRS is reminding truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that in most cases their next federal highway use tax return is due Monday, Aug. 31.