Tax practice

One of the most concrete new proposals in President Obama's State of the Union address was the creation of a new type of retirement savings vehicle -- the MyRA.

A roundup of tax news from the previous month.

A new government report suggests changes to Obamacare implementation may be a strain

Strategies for maximizing investment efficiency

Should they file a joint return, or married filing separate?

The tax reform proposal issued this week by House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., is continuing to generate plenty of discussion.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the long-awaited final instructions for the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax that was included as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

When people get paid in cash, they don’t always tell their tax preparer right away – if at all.

If the tax reform proposal unveiled earlier this week by Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp is really “dead on arrival,” as some have suggested, why has virtually every organization with a stake in the tax process made an effort to comment on it? After all, it’s just a discussion draft.

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

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that only three weeks after the opening of tax season, it has already received about one-third of the individual income tax returns it expects to receive in 2014.

Martin Lack became the fourth ex-UBS AG banker to plead guilty to aiding wealthy Americans evade taxes, admitting that for 17 years he helped U.S. clients maintain secret overseas accounts.

For a plan unlikely to become law anytime soon, Representative Dave Camp’s proposal to revamp the tax code is causing a lot of agitation among U.S. companies.

Americans who have been evading taxes through Swiss bank accounts are being advised by tax lawyers to come forward before the Justice Department steps up its own pursuit in response to Senate critics.

(Bloomberg) Ernst & Young LLP was accused by the U.S. of failing to comply with an Internal Revenue Service request for documents in an investigation of the tax liability of the billionaire chairman of industrial-bearing maker Schaeffler AG.

The IRS has unveiled new depreciation deduction limitations for passenger automobiles (including trucks and vans) first placed in service during 2014.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., has released his long-awaited draft legislation on tax reform, to mixed reviews.

Credit Suisse Group AG helped American customers hide as much as $10 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service, more than double the amount previously known, according to a U.S. Senate committee report.

A whistleblower’s $6.8 million in awards must be taxed as ordinary income, a U.S. Tax Court judge ruled, rejecting arguments that the money should be recognized as capital gains and subject to a lower rate.