Tax practice

The Internal Revenue Service has opened the official nominating season for the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee, a federal advisory group that provides recommendations to the IRS on information reporting issues that concern both the private sector and the federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service reported Monday that the number of completed Advance Pricing Agreements, in which the IRS and multinational corporate taxpayers work out voluntary agreements on transfer pricing, fell last year as the agency coped with reorganization and personnel shifts.

From now through April 13, Intuit’s Accounting Professional Division will host a series on its Lacerte and ProSeries Live Community Web pages in which Intuit experts address customers’ product and general tax questions.

The case of a wealthy U.S. businessman who pleaded guilty to evading taxes but then sued the Swiss bank where he hid his money is scheduled to go to trial on May 8, the first major test of civil legal challenges to Swiss banks that sold offshore private banking services to help Americans evade taxes.

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President Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that Congress will be voting in the weeks ahead on the Buffett Rule, which would raise taxes on the wealthy.

The Internal Revenue Service has recently published its final regulations on public inspection of material relating to tax-exempt organizations, which affects organizations that were exempt but are no longer exempt from federal income tax, and organizations that were denied tax-exempt status.

The U.S. is set to have the highest combined federal and state statutory corporate tax rate in the industrialized world on Sunday, April 1, once Japan drops its top rate to 38.1 percent.

The Internal Revenue Service said it is giving an extension to enrolled agents whose renewal applications for their enrollments have been delayed due to a processing delay.

There’s good news and bad news to be found in the predictions of the tax business executives polled in the Tax Policy Forecast Survey.

A recent report from the Government Accountability Office called IRS Form 8938 and the FBAR "duplicative," often asking for the same or similar information.

The House has passed a Republican-sponsored budget alternative to President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget, mostly based on the plan put forward by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for creating only two tax brackets of just 10 and 25 percent.

A trio of House Democrats have introduced a bill that would provide tax relief to homeowners who were wrongly foreclosed upon and receive money from the recent nationwide mortgage foreclosure settlement.

When someone drives down the highway and spots a police car on the side of the road, a sense of paranoia overwhelms the individual even though no law has been broken.

The House Ways and Means Committee has passed a Republican-sponsored bill aimed at reducing taxes for small businesses that would also benefit larger companies.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it would provide penalty relief to farmers who incurred estimated tax penalties because they did not receive their 1099 forms from MF Global or the bankrupt financial firm’s court-appointed trustee on a timely basis.

Congress approved legislation Tuesday intended to spur investment in small businesses and help them access the capital markets, despite criticisms that it would weaken audit safeguards and investor protections.

The Internal Revenue Service has made organizational and administrative changes in the programs governing agreements between large businesses and the IRS over how tax transactions can be reported, particularly for multinational corporations using transfer pricing.