Tax research

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.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US has released two new tax briefings on the Supreme Court’s rulings last week on the Affordable Care Act and same-sex marriage, along with trade legislation that contained several tax provisions.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US has introduced the CCH International Tax Compliance Calendar, an interactive tool that delivers key deadline dates to tax professionals for up to 112 tax jurisdictions around the world.

LexisNexis has introduced Lexis Advance Tax, a specialized research portal providing news and analysis to accountants, tax and estate attorneys, government tax professionals and other tax practitioners.

Bloomberg BNA Tax & Accounting executive editor George Farrah talks about new features in his company's research products, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

George Farrah, executive editor of Bloomberg BNA Tax & Accounting, discusses changes in the accounting profession and the technology and recruiting strategies used by firms, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Thomson Reuters has released the fourth edition of its treatise, "Tax Planning for Highly Compensated Individuals," by Robert E. Madden on the Thomson Reuters Checkpoint service.

Thomson Reuters has added content on like-kind exchanges to its Checkpoint Catalyst tax research system to help tax practitioners secure tax deferrals for their clients.

Nearly half of all states impose taxes on memberships in gyms, health clubs, athletic clubs and fitness clubs, while the rest either exempt memberships or don’t have state sales taxes at all, according to new research.

At a recent gathering of corporate tax professionals, many confessed to uneasiness about the damage to the reputations of their companies from media reports about their tax strategies.

CFOs of multinational corporations have mixed reactions to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s crackdown on base erosion and profit shifting by global companies, according to a new survey.