Tax practice

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

For tax preparers who aren’t interested in extending their tax business beyond the end of April, but who would like to keep themselves and their staff employed in some meaningful activity, accountant Craig Comer has a suggestion: go into another seasonal business.

The U.S. Senate advanced a narrow attempt by Democrats to limit tax breaks for companies moving jobs out of the U.S.

At least four Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee say they’re not ready to back the push by President Barack Obama and party leaders for retroactive tax legislation to prevent companies from moving their legal addresses out of the U.S.

On the same day that the Securities and Exchange Commission issued long-awaited rules for money market mutual funds, the Internal Revenue Service has issued its own rules for money market funds and wash sales.

Expiration of the research tax credit imperils the orphan drug credit, and the lives that depend on it.

Undercover investigators working with the Government Accountability Office found it was easy to falsify information when applying for Premium Tax Credits to help pay for health insurance.

The battle over corporate inversion deals is heating up, as more U.S. multinational corporations find merger partners abroad that will allow them to move their tax domiciles to countries with lower tax rates.

The growing number and complexity of large partnerships, such as hedge funds, are making it difficult for the Internal Revenue Service to audit them effectively, according to a new government report.

I remember the tax-cutting years in previous political eras. Those were the good old days. Now it’s easy to get the impression we have higher income taxes and an extra tax on investment earnings. But analyzing taxes and the reasons behind them are not that simple. Some brackets are actually lower today, and some taxpayers are paying at a higher rate while others are paying at a lower rate.

Legislation to deter U.S. companies from moving their addresses overseas should avoid retroactive taxes, prevent a net tax increase and move toward a revamp of the tax code, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said today.

In another blow to President Barack’s Obama’s signature legislation, a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the plaintiff, declaring the law’s premium subsidies are invalid in more than two dozen states due to the law’s specific language.

The Internal Revenue Service did not establish processes to verify eligibility for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, according to a new government report.

President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul suffered a potentially crippling blow as a U.S. appeals court ruled the government can’t give financial assistance to anyone buying coverage on the insurance marketplace run by federal authorities.

A Renaissance Technologies LLC hedge fund’s investors probably avoided more than $6 billion in U.S. income taxes over 14 years through transactions with Barclays Plc and Deutsche Bank AG, a Senate committee said.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations to amend the definition of research and experimental expenditures, providing guidance for taxpayers engaged in research activities on the treatment of amounts paid or incurred in connection with the development of tangible property, including pilot models.

A tax preparer and bookkeeper in Southern California was sentenced to 36 months in prison for using the stolen identities of her relatives and former clients to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released the full version of the OECD’s new standard for the automatic exchange of tax information across different countries.

Thomson Reuters has released a special report for tax professionals on how to respond to Internal Revenue Service examinations.

At one point we had a client that was going out of business and they asked us to negotiate a final settlement with the IRS where the two partners could walk away broke but without being in debt to the IRS for unpaid withholding taxes.