Tax practice

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.

The Tax Court has held that the “unallocated alimony/child support payments” by a doctor to his ex-wife were non-taxable.

You may find your clients worried that their identities, their credit scores and maybe their life savings will wind up at the mercy of some free-spending crook. What can you tell them?

The IRS revealed today that approximately 220,000 more taxpayers than it had previously announced were affected by a breach in its “Get Transcript” Web app.

Bloomberg BNA has released a new edition of Unclaimed Property, its Tax Management Portfolio on escheatment and unclaimed property laws.

Victims of the mid-July severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides in parts of Kentucky may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

A roundup of some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

It’s the beginning of the end of the filing date disconnect between foreign bank account reports and income tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations for determining a taxable beneficiary’s basis in a term interest in a charitable remainder trust upon a sale or other disposition of all interests in the trust, to the extent that basis consists of a share of adjusted uniform basis.

The Internal Revenue Service said it will not assert that an individual whose personal information may have been compromised in a data breach must include in gross income the value of the identity protection services provided by the organization that experienced the data breach.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final and temporary regulations removing the automatic 30-day extension of time to file information returns on forms in the W-2 series, with the exception of Form W-2G, in an effort to combat tax-related identity theft, starting in 2017.