Tax practice

A federal appeals court has reversed the Tax Court, handing a supermarket chain a victory in its attempt to deduct rewards that shoppers had earned but had not yet redeemed at the end of the year.

French police and prosecutors swooped on Google’s Paris offices on Tuesday, intensifying a tax-fraud probe amid accusations across Europe that the Internet giant fails to pay its fair share.

Morris Zukerman spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley, at various points overseeing its energy and merchant banking practices, before starting his own investment firm in the late 1980s. His firm’s partners have included ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Kinder Morgan. He endowed a Harvard sociology professorship. He collected dozens of expensive paintings, including works he loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along the way, he evaded more than $45 million in taxes, the U.S. now alleges.

A bipartisan group of senators from the Senate Finance Committee are asking the Treasury Department to intervene with European Commission officials who have been investigating special deals set up by U.S.-based multinationals with countries in the European Union allowing them to lower their taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax professionals to register for its 2016 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums, where they can earn up to 19 continuing professional education credits.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for the IRS to set up a separate user fee category for private letter ruling requests for S corporations, which would result in lower fees for these requests.

The IRS has been so slow to adapt to the rapidly emerging peer-to-peer economy that billions of dollars in taxable income a year are probably going unreported every year, according to a study being delivered to Congress this week.

States are hungrier than ever, an annual sales tax survey finds

The IRS will conduct its annual Memorial Day systems shutdown beginning Saturday, May 28.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including the most brazen fake business name in tax fraud history.

Congratulations, now that you’ve made it through the end of busy season and managed to put all of those long evenings in the office in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get back to business. Now is a great time to revisit your firm’s strategic plan for 2016.

Now that it’s springtime and the birds are chirping, it’s important for your tax clients to consider education-related expenses when applying for federal financial aid.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service about Notice 2015-54, Transfers of Property to Partnerships with Related Foreign Partners.

The Tax Court said no to an accountant and tax preparer who tried to deduct the cost of law school.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to begin testing as early as next week a more secure version of the online “Get Transcript” app that was taken down last year when the IRS discovered it had been used by hackers to access hundreds of thousands of tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service still doesn't have the authority from Congress to correct billions of dollars in erroneous claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit despite recent legislation, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to enhance its internal control over financial reporting, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

Although the initial flurry of publicity surrounding the leak of the Panama Papers has subsided somewhat, the release serves as a reminder that there’s a real problem for taxpayers still holding offshore accounts that they haven’t reported, according to Ivan Golden, an attorney at Schiff Hardin LLP.

Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing software that uses big data technology to automate, track and analyze the transfer pricing process.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent more than 160 recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service regarding on the items to include on the agency’s 2016-2017 Guidance Priority List.