Tax regulations

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to ensure taxpayers aren’t using virtual currencies like bitcoin to avoid taxes, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on controlled foreign corporations to provide rules about the treatment of U.S. property held by the CFC in connection with transactions involving partnerships.

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee sent a a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asking him to withdraw the Treasury’s recently proposed regulations on estate and gift taxes.

The IRS’s recent Audit Techniques Guide for the Tangible Property Regulations can help business taxpayers avoid problems with IRS examiners in interpreting the 2014 regulations on how to treat expenses incurred for materials, supplies, repairs and maintenance.

Earlier this week, I moderated an Accounting Today web seminar on Understanding Affordable Care Act Reporting: Year 2.

The IRS has released cost-of-living adjustments for the dollar limitations for pension plan contributions and other retirement-related items for tax year 2017.

No matter who wins this year’s presidential election, CFOs and tax directors alike will wonder what changes are looming. Given the slim chance of a complete overhaul of our tax system, the short answer to our titular question is, “Probably not much.”

The Internal Revenue Service issued an Audit Techniques Guide last month governing compliance with the tangible property repair regulations.

The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries—a response to sustained criticism from big business and from members of Congress, who had asked that they be delayed and scaled back.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations on earnings stripping in an effort to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the Internal Revenue Service has released new rules and procedures for deducting disaster losses.

Warren Buffett just fact checked Donald Trump.

The details of Donald Trump’s taxes are a bit of a mystery, even with the unauthorized release of a single tax return from 1995. Still, the evidence suggests that the real-estate magnate and presidential candidate may have used a staggering loss of $916 million to avoid paying income taxes for many years afterward.

Donald Trump offered a new line of defense of his own tax problems Tuesday: blame Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump won’t release any new tax information in response to revelations that he claimed a massive tax loss in 1995 that potentially allowed him to eliminate his federal income-tax bill for almost two decades, according to two people familiar with the campaign’s thinking.

Donald Trump was facing renewed pressure to release his personal tax information after a New York Times report that he recorded a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return, a deduction that might have allowed him to cut his federal income tax for several ensuing years.

A group of advocacy organizations is urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to require multinational companies to disclose more information about their taxes.

The Tax Foundation has released its annual ranking of states and how competitive their business tax codes are.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice outlining the special diem rates that taxpayers can use to substantiate the amounts they are claiming for lodging, meals and incidental expenses when traveling away from home.

The deadlines for filing the Form W-2 with the Social Security Administration and the Form 1099-MISC with the Internal Revenue Service are changing next year.