Tax practice

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

If the Supreme Court issues a ruling later this month that financial subsidies on the federal health care exchange are legal in King v. Burwell, it would be time to shift the conversation about the Affordable Care Act and focus on substance, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.

Melissa Gilbert, who starred in the TV series “Little House on the Prairie,” is reportedly paying off a big tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service.

When taxpayers rent out a room on Airbnb, they may realize that any compensation they receive is subject to income tax. Lodging tax, however, is probably not on their minds.

The Internal Revenue Service met Thursday with tax preparation and software companies, payroll and tax financial product processors, and state tax administrators to announce a sweeping new collaborative effort to combat identity theft refund fraud and protect taxpayers.

The Vatican has signed an intergovernmental agreement with the U.S. Treasury Department to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA.

The House introduced legislation that aims to make it easier for individuals, employers, states and the federal government to determine who is eligible for premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act.

The House approved legislation by voice vote permanently banning states from taxing Internet access or placing multiple or discriminatory taxes on e-commerce.

Republican leaders of Congress’s two tax-writing committees are questioning recommendations from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development aimed at stopping multinational corporations from shifting their profits to low-tax countries.

U.S. House Republicans are proposing a 7.7 percent cut to the IRS budget, setting the boundaries for a budget standoff over the next few months.

The Internal Revenue Service did not receive much of the information it needed early this tax season from health insurance exchanges to verify taxpayers’ qualifications to claim tax credits to subsidize buying health coverage, according to a new report.

A federal judge has ordered the IRS to answer questions by Friday, June 12, on the status of certain e-mails from former employee Lois Lerner that the service had said were lost.

The institute has recommended to the IRS that taxpayers making an accounting method change for mischaracterized research and experimental expenditures under Sec. 174 should compute a Sec. 481 (a) adjustment.

Soon the grasp of the taxman could be felt before the jackpot celebration stops at a lucky slot machine.

Three little letters, brokers' mailrooms and keyboarding crooks seemed the major troublemakers of the season just gone by, according to preparers.

Heads of state meeting at the G7 Summit in Bavaria, Germany committed to promoting automatic exchange of tax information and tax rulings to discourage multinational companies from shifting profits from country to country to avoid taxes.

Trade groups representing the banking, credit union and financial services industry are sounding the alarm over a provision in a bill already passed by the Senate that would require them to report information to the Internal Revenue Service on both interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing accounts.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

A businessman caught in a money-laundering sting helped the U.S. prosecute a foreign business—and now he’s seeking $22.2 million from the government as a reward.