Tax research

First, a bit of non-news: College is expensive. Last school year, private colleges averaged over $31,000. But there is some relief available from a tax perspective.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US is offering its predictions for the estimated ranges for each 2016 tax bracket, based on the inflation data released this week by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Thomson Reuters has introduced a Tax Fundamentals Certificate Program for tax professionals and those who help them.

Bloomberg BNA has released a report on projected 2016 tax rates, providing a detailed forecast of inflation-adjusted tax items.

Thomson Reuters is forecasting the tax rates for next year and predicting they will be adjusted upward in line with modest inflation.

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA State Tax Analyzer, a multi-state, multi-year, multi-scenario state tax analysis tool for corporate income taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service's decision not to update mortality assumptions to reflect today's higher life expectancy could help corporate pension plan sponsors save at least $18 billion in 2016 as they continue to calculate minimum funding contributions according to outdated models, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US said it has been selected for the 11th straight year by the Internal Revenue Service to deliver its sales tax rate and taxability tables to help taxpayers across prepare their tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service published statistics and reports Wednesday analyzing trends in 2012 and 2013 tax returns.

Twenty-six percent of employers offering health benefits could be subject to the Affordable Care Act’s tax on high-cost health plans, also known as the “Cadillac plan” tax, in 2018 unless they make changes to their plans, according to a new analysis.

Thomson Reuters has introduced the Corporate CPE Network to provide corporate professionals with information, recommendations and best practices to educate them on new tax law and accounting requirements.

Business executives are giving mixed predictions on when and if tax reform will finally happen in Washington, in a new survey.

Seventeen states will soon offer sales tax holidays where state sales tax charges are temporarily dropped on back-to-school items and other qualifying products.

In the first two quarters of 2015, there were 207 sales and use tax rate changes, up from 159 in the first six months of 2014, according to a new report.

An 85 percent majority of CPAs in New Jersey expect their businesses to grow in the coming year, according to a new survey.

Sales tax software provider Avalara has partnered with the publisher Wiley to offer a free ebook, “Sales & Use Tax Compliance for Dummies.”

KPMG has launched a new quarterly publication to provide chief tax officers, corporate leaders and board members with a view of how their peers are coping with major tax topics and the related challenges and opportunities.

More than 80 percent of large corporations have been offered incentives by a state or local economic official for a new development or corporate relocation, according to a new study by Bloomberg BNA.

The Senate Finance Committee released a series of reports Wednesday from five bipartisan tax working groups working on various aspects of tax reform.

The Justice Department said Friday that British Petroleum has agreed to pay a record-breaking $18.7 billion settlement to resolve claims related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, but advocacy groups are warning that the settlement is largely tax deductible for BP.