Tax regulations

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed rescinding tax relief and other incentives retroactively for U.S. companies that move jobs and operations overseas.

The Treasury Department has issued a newly revised U.S. Model Income Tax Convention to provide the baseline text it will use when negotiating tax treaties with other countries. It was last updated in 2006.

For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued inflation adjustments for several tax breaks involving schoolteacher expenses, transit fringe benefits and Section 179 expensing of certain depreciable assets.

With many of the largest U.S. college endowments at record values, two congressional committees that determine tax policy jointly opened an inquiry about how the wealthiest schools manage and spend those funds.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the maximum vehicle values for 2016 that taxpayers need to determine the value of personal use of employer-provided vehicles.

Accounting firms that prepare the taxes of companies they also audit tend to steer away from dubious tax deductions, according to a new study.

A large number of important tax changes go into effect this year for businesses.

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 extends a number of important tax breaks, and makes many of them permanent.

With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.

Nonprofits are expressing concern about proposed regulations from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department that could give charities the option of providing Social Security numbers of donors who contribute more than $250 to their organizations.

Most families aren’t tax professionals, and that’s why they come to you in the first place.

Vanguard Group Inc. has reached an agreement to pay several million dollars in back taxes in Texas, the first known payout related to a whistle-blower’s accusation that the world’s biggest mutual-fund company underpaid its taxes by tens of billions of dollars.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new regulations for innocent spouse relief related to joint and several liability under the Tax Code.

The Internal Revenue Service announced three changes Friday to the proposed rules for the new tax-favored Achieving a Better Life Experience, or ABLE, accounts for eligible disabled individuals that will be included in the final regulations when they are issued to make it easier for states to offer and administer ABLE programs.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have outlined additional steps they are taking to reduce the tax benefits of corporate inversions, and when possible, stop the transactions from occurring.

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to release additional guidance this week aimed at deterring corporate inversions, though it can’t stop such tax-avoidance moves without new authority from Congress, Secretary Jacob J. Lew said.

The sharing economy has created untold numbers of micro-entrepreneurs, who provide services through digital-age apps.

The Internal Revenue Service recently proposed regulations that could have a big impact on U.S.-based multinational corporations that are considering incorporating a foreign branch operation or transferring intellectual property abroad.

There is a powerful alternative that is increasingly being used to deal with excess problematic inventory: corporate barter.