Tax practice

What is the meaning of art? The IRS may have the answer.

Bisk Education has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Internal Revenue Service as part of the IRS’s drive to require tax preparers to undergo mandatory continuing education.

The Internal Revenue Service has finalized its regulations on paying rewards to whistleblowers for up to 30 percent of the proceeds collected for helping the IRS detect underpayments and violations of the tax laws.

A nonprofit group representing the interests of U.S. citizens living overseas met with congressional staffers to push for a residence-based taxation system.

The Internal Revenue Service has been having more problems with delayed tax refunds.

Just over 50 percent of Americans anticipate they will receive a refund on either their federal or state income tax return this year, according to a new survey, and of those 63 percent said they plan to save or invest at least part of the money.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving extra time to taxpayers who lived in some of the countries caught up in the “Arab Spring” upheavals in the Middle East.

Congress passed legislation Friday extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the “doc fix” for Medicare physician reimbursements through the remainder of the year.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has cracked down on a pair of Southern California tax preparers accused of stealing their clients’ tax refunds.

There hasn’t been a federal budget in three years, so what’s to worry about the just-released budget for fiscal year 2013?

The Internal Revenue Service has released a clarification for how to report credit and debit card transactions on the new Form 1099-K information-reporting form.

House and Senate negotiators have released a conference committee report spelling out several of the provisions of the payroll tax cut extension legislation, which also extends unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” for Medicare reimbursements for physicians.

The Internal Revenue Service released its annual list Thursday of the “Dirty Dozen” tax scams that taxpayers should be aware of this year, particularly during tax season.

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman warned tax executives that they face substantial tax risks from uncertain tax positions, international enforcement efforts, and impermanent tax credits that expire every year or two.

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years’ worth of his joint income tax returns with his wife Karen, showing the former senator had adjusted gross income of nearly $1 million in 2010.

Lawmakers negotiating over the payroll tax cut extension said they have agreed on a deal to extend the 2 percentage point cut in Social Security and Medicare withholding taxes through the rest of the year, along with unemployment benefits and the “doc fix” to prevent Medicare reimbursements to physicians from being cut.

The Internal Revenue Service has updated its rules for how its Office of Appeals is allowed to communicate with other parts of the IRS when a taxpayer or the taxpayer’s representative is not present.

The Internal Revenue Service offered advice Wednesday to unemployed taxpayers on how they and their tax preparers should report unemployment benefits on their tax returns.

U.S. lawmakers reached a tentative deal on Tuesday on legislation aimed at boosting the economy by extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers through this year and continuing long-term jobless benefits, congressional aides said.

CCH has introduced CCH Integrator, which combines the company’s tax research products with other tax compliance products for multinational corporations.