Tax practice

A U.S. Postal Service worker has been found guilty of participating in a scheme to steal millions of dollars in federal tax refund checks from the U.S. mail.

President Obama repeated his demand for Congress to eliminate an estimated $4 billion in tax breaks for the major oil and gas companies.

The Internal Revenue Service said Monday it is accepting applications for the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, which provides a public forum for IRS officials and representatives of the public to discuss relevant issues regarding federal tax administration.

The Internal Revenue Service received an award for the written clarity of its official notices, while insurance provider CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland received an award for the most confusing language.

An Ohio CPA has pleaded guilty to charges that he helped clients file false tax returns claiming investments in gas wells.

A number of years ago, a gaming and hospitality analyst whom I'd interviewed a number of times was fired after he told The Wall Street Journal that a certain casino in Atlantic City was basically a house of cards and would not survive.

The Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011, which passed Congress on April 5, 2011, eliminates two recently enacted 1099 reporting requirements that were to take effect in 2012. Still on the books, however, are a couple of new 1099 reporting requirements effective for 2011.

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The Texas Society of CPAs has issued an analysis of the Obama administration’s call for eliminating special tax breaks for domestic oil and gas production and come out firmly against any repeal.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected Prometric Inc. as the vendor to administer a new competency examination and fingerprinting program for certain paid tax return preparers.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blamed a “broken” tax system as one of the chief causes of the U.S. budget deficit.

It’s good that tax reform is high on the political agenda these days.

The Tax Code provides substantial benefits for families with children, including up to $9,000 for a single parent with two children, according to a new study.

Two Republican congressional leaders have written to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman demanding information on how the IRS is spending $1 billion in funds the agency received under the health care reform law.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., released a plan Thursday to write legislation that would end billions of dollars in tax breaks for large multinational oil and gas companies.

Corporate tax departments and high-ranking executives are doing a better job of communicating, according to a new survey BY Ernst & Young.

A Bronx tax preparer who called himself “Moses” pleaded guilty to preparing false tax returns.

President Obama has written to congressional leaders encouraging them to eliminate special tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.

Nearly 1,200 Electronic Filing Identification Numbers were reported to the Internal Revenue Service as compromised over a five-year period, allowing an individual to electronically submit a federal income tax return using another individual’s EFIN without that person's knowledge, according to a new report.