Tax practice

Tax professionals can earn CPE credits online through seminars filmed at the 2016 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums, the service announced.

Tax pros discuss do-it-yourself filers

The Internal Revenue Service is postponing a security upgrade to its e-Services for tax professionals in a new setback for the agency.

The perilous calculus associated with retirement

The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries—a response to sustained criticism from big business and from members of Congress, who had asked that they be delayed and scaled back.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations on earnings stripping in an effort to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions.

A New Jersey Tax Court judge has sided with a couple who won $46 million in the state lottery in 2000 and elected to have their winnings distributed in annual installments as a multiyear annuity payment, holding that the state did not have the right to retroactively tax their winnings after passing a new statute.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the Internal Revenue Service has released new rules and procedures for deducting disaster losses.

The Internal Revenue Service allowed over $27.2 million in potentially wrong tax refunds or tax credits to 1,938 taxpayers who made so-called “frivolous tax arguments,” according to a new report.

Facebook Inc. is carrying on its fight with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over taxes relating to its transfer of global operations to Ireland in 2010.

The IRS is sending due diligence letters to paid preparers who may be noncompliant in meeting their Earned Income Tax Credit due-diligence requirements.

Hillary Clinton’s proposed tax increases on people with high incomes and on businesses would constrain economic growth, according to a policy group’s analysis.

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

The Internal Revenue Service is giving victims of Hurricane Matthew in North Carolina extra time to file their tax returns and make tax payments.

President Obama has signed legislation exempting Olympic and Paralympic athletes from taxes on their medals and winnings.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is proposing to revamp and expand the child tax credit to provide more benefits for low-income families and for eligible families with children age 4 and under.

Warren Buffett just fact checked Donald Trump.

A new IRS test program doubles the dollar limit for people to more easily set up payment plans for their tax debt.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.