Tax practice

The Internal Revenue Service is going after the estate of Bill Davidson, former owner of the Detroit Pistons and auto industry supplier Guardian Industries, to the tune of more than $2 billion.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new Affordable Care Act Tax Provisions site at IRS.gov/aca to educate individuals and businesses on how the health care law might affect them.

Under some circumstances, the provision of services by a corporation to its shareholders is “property” within the meaning of Code Section 317(a), which can result in the IRS finding that there was a constructive dividend to the shareholder.

The Internal Revenue Service has combined parts of several revenue procedures into a new revenue procedure that provides relief to companies that make late elections to become S corporations.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to the heads of Congress’s main tax-writing committee expressing its opposition to a proposed limitation on the use of the cash method of accounting for partnerships, S corporations, personal service corporations and farmers.

Tax research publisher Tax Analysts has filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service, asking a federal court to force the agency to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request and provide training materials used for its guidance in exempt organizations determinations.

House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany, R-La., has asked the Government Accountability Office to assess how the Internal Revenue Service examines tax-exempt organizations in the aftermath of recent scandals.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the final regulations for how it will release tax return information to the Department of Health and Human Services to assess a taxpayer’s eligibility for help in buying health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Americans who currently buy their own insurance through the individual market would receive tax credits averaging nearly $2,700 next year for coverage purchased through new insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study.

U.S. taxpayers filed 145.4 million individual income tax returns for tax year 2011, a 1.7 percent increase from 2010, according to newly released IRS statistics.

House Small Business Committee chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service expressing his concerns about the thousands of notices that the IRS is sending to small businesses telling them they may have underreported their income.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed to extend for up to 10 years the amount of time that taxpayers would have to apply for the “innocent spouse” tax relief program.

Married same-sex couples with children may face higher bills from the IRS as recent Supreme Court rulings start playing out in the tax code.

A pair of House Republican lawmakers, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and House Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D., R-La., have written to Internal Revenue Service principal deputy commissioner Daniel Werfel calling on him to immediately stop the IRS from continuing to target Tea Party applications based on name alone, but Democrats are disputing the charges.

The IRS has lost several cases this year when taxpayers, who lacked good documents, or any documents, testified about the facts and were believed by the Tax Court.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that it is delaying the planned retirement of its Disclosure Authorization and Electronic Account Resolution online applications for three weeks.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing dozens of tax-exempt bond-financed jails, particularly in border states, and suggesting in some cases that, if the jails hold significant amounts of federal inmates, the bonds are no longer tax-exempt and are instead taxable private-activity bonds, sources said Thursday.

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.

CCH has improved navigation and other features in its online IntelliConnect tax and accounting research service, including a redesigned CCH Tax Calendar.

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services plans to begin a tax amnesty program from Sept. 16, until November 15, 2013 for any taxable period ending on or before Nov. 30, 2012.