Tax practice

While I’ve not yet been the victim of identity theft, the possibility—and the consequences—are beginning to loom.

A Los Angeles-area tax preparer has pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges after he was accused of using his clients’ identities to file for large tax refunds that went to his address.

Participants in the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program prepared thousands of free tax returns for taxpayers well above the income threshold mandated by the IRS, even for taxpayers with incomes over $1 million.

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it has reached a settlement with BDO USA LLP under which the accounting firm will pay a civil penalty of $34.4 million for violating tax laws concerning tax shelters.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday to examine the impact of tax reform on U.S. energy policy.

The Internal Revenue Service warned employers that they only have until June 19 to qualify for an expanded tax credit of up to $9,600 for hiring veterans.

With the hurricane season starting early this year, the Internal Revenue Service is encouraging individuals and businesses to follow a few steps to protect themselves against natural disasters.

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the complaint of a tax preparer who argued that the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service did not have the right to charge an annual fee for a Preparer Tax Identification Number.

CCH’s Taxes – The Tax Magazine, one of the profession’s oldest tax-centric magazines, is now available as an app for the iPad.

The House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing Friday on various expiring and already-expired tax breaks.

The IRS Oversight Board said in its annual report to Congress that the Internal Revenue Service needs to reassess its goal of delivering tax refunds within 45 days given the prevalence of electronic filing.

The House voted to repeal the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices and another provision from the health care reform law that prevents holders of health savings accounts from buying over-the-counter medicine without a prescription.

Compliance professionals around the world say they are not ready to handle the demanding requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, according to a new survey.

A pair of Republican senators have introduced a bill aimed at providing a long-term fix for the expected hike in student loan interest rates.

Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said Wednesday that he plans to introduce a bill to provide tax breaks for small businesses that hire new employees or increase wages as a substitute for a bill being pushed by House Republicans to repeal the medical device tax in the health care law.

With the expiration of the current tax rates approaching at the end of the year, and a deep round of spending cuts looming, a new report sheds light on what effect that would have on the economy and the nation’s debt levels.

The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging tax preparers to take a new competency exam as soon as possible.

A judge has thrown out the convictions of former BDO Seidman chairman and CEO Denis Field and two attorneys who were convicted last year of tax fraud, calling one of the jurors a pathological liar who had falsified her background and tainted the trial.

In an effort to "jumpstart" the U.S. economy and create more jobs, both the House and the Senate passed the Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups (or JOBS) Act, and President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law.

Ginny Hopkins, a waitress who has worked for nearly two decades at a Cleveland restaurant, received a tax refund check for $434,712 in the mail from the Internal Revenue Service instead of the $754 she had been expecting.