Tax research

Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint research service has released a special report on the recent tax extenders legislation that was approved last month by Congress, along with the new ABLE Accounts that provide a type of tax-advantaged savings program for disabled individuals.

State regulators are now collecting nearly $400 billion in sales tax as compared to 2003 when they collected just over $250 billion.

Companies where women are CFOs are less likely to adopt risky tax strategies than companies managed by male CFOs, according to a new academic study.

Companies planning for a merger or acquisition have various issues to consider as they prepare for the transaction. One of the issues is golden parachutes.

Affordable Care Act-related tax issues await CPAs and those who prepare their own returns this upcoming tax season, according to the National Conference of CPA Practitioners.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has released a report highlighting billions of dollars in tax breaks for “special interests.”

As year-end approaches, it would be worthwhile for practitioners to consider whether corporate clients could benefit from the following “last minute” tax-saving moves, including adjustments to income to preserve favorable estimated tax rules for 2015, deferral of certain advance payments to next year, and fine-tuning bonuses to make the most of the Section 199 domestic production activities deduction.

U.S. states are taking advantage of an expanding economy to cut taxes by the most in 14 years while spending more on education and other programs, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.

Bloomberg BNA has released the inaugural edition of the Bloomberg BNA 2015 Federal Tax Guide, a quick-reference guide for tax practitioners to help with preparing 2014 individual and business tax returns and 2015 planning.

U.S. companies that have already carried out inversions are likely to cost the government a record $2.2 billion or more in lost tax revenue next year, double the amount in 2014, according to calculations based on companies’ financial results.

Tax benefits for individuals and small businesses that expired in 2013 could have an impact on as many as one in six taxpayers, according to a new analysis.

With only a few days remaining on Congress's 2014 legislative calendar, there is still no clear answer for whether and how Congress will deal with the nearly 60 "extender" tax provisions—the temporary provisions that have been routinely extended on a one- or two-year basis but were allowed to expire at the end of 2013.

Holiday shoppers who are planning spending sprees at their local stores on Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend will be contending not only with door-buster bargains, but also with sales taxes, which in some states and localities can be much higher or lower than others.

Josh Braunstein, vice president of research and learning at Wolters Kluwer CCH, discusses how the company is integrating its tax research with popular search engines, in an interview at the CCH Connections conference in Orlando with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Seventy percent of corporate tax professionals said they favor lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate, even if that means their companies would have to give up tax loopholes, according to a new study.

Wolters Kluwer CCH has released a new tax briefing document analyzing the federal tax legislation outlook along with strategies that taxpayers and businesses should consider for reducing their income taxes.

Ernst & Young has published the latest annual edition of its tax guide, the EY Tax Guide 2015.

Executives with Wolters Kluwer CCH described a series of improvements to their tax, accounting and auditing software products at the CCH Connections user conference in Orlando on Monday, including enhancements to leverage the power of Google and other popular search engines.

As 2014 draws to a close, there may be more planning opportunities than ever before, but also more traps for the unwary, according to Grant Thornton LLP.

Thomson Reuters has released a tax-planning treatise for estate planners, Tax Planning for Family Wealth Transfers at Death: Analysis with Forms.