Tax research

An advisory committee cautioned the Internal Revenue Service that implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act could run afoul of foreign laws.

Tax 2.0, a new tax-focused online community, is set to make its official debut later this month.

An analysis of tax liens across the U.S. found that New York City, with some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the nation, was the country’s leading area to be on the receiving end of federal tax liens.

Across the U.S., there were 97 increases in state sales and use taxes, 96 new taxes and nine decreases in the third quarter of the year, according to a new report.

CPA2Biz, the American Institute of CPAs’ business unit, will be introducing e-reader publications, a mobile site and mobile apps.

SaaS-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara released AvaTax 1099, a cloud-based offering for 1099 reporting that leverages a new strategic partnership with SaaS-based tax information reporting company Convey.

With the exception of Spain, Luxembourg, Ireland, and a few other countries, most nations did not increase their top personal income tax rate this past year despite revenue pressures, according to a new report from KPMG.

Practitioners tend to view tax season with mixed feelings. On the downside, there's getting clients to send you the data you need to construct their return, and determining how much of what they give you is actually germane to the return.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has introduced a series of sales and use tax courses on its Checkpoint Learning system.

Grant Thornton has chosen CCH to provide the firm’s tax professionals with subscription-based tax research content and workflow tools.

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States are coping with revenue shortfalls by getting rid of sales tax holidays and ratcheting up their audits of corporate sales and use taxes, according to new research.

Multinational companies needed to deal with 270 tax changes in the U.S. and globally in the second quarter of this year, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service warned U.S. taxpayers Monday that if they are hiding income in undisclosed offshore accounts, time is running out for them to take advantage of its second Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative, which will expire on Aug. 31, 2011.

Thomson Reuters has released GAAP Reporter on its Checkpoint online tax and accounting research service.

PDI Global, which is part of the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, has released its 2011-2012 Tax Planning Guide.

Thomson Reuters has received a U.S. patent for its Universal Tax Determination Engine, which provides centralized control of tax policy and data-driven tax determinations for sales, use and value-added taxes.

CCH has expanded its Tax Prep Partner Series of online tax research products with a new Information Returns title.

CCH and Baker Tilly International have begun a strategic partnership that will enable accounting firms in the Baker Tilly International network to receive CCH news, insights and other information services.

Thomson Reuters has upgraded its Checkpoint online tax and accounting research service with new features designed to improve the system’s efficiency, customizability and analysis.