Tax research

CCH has enhanced its IntelliConnect tax and accounting research service with a Categorized View that allows results to be viewed according to document type.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how other countries have used tax reform to help their companies compete globally.

A new survey by Thomson Reuters found a perceived increase of 80 percent in audits of indirect taxes such as value-added taxes.

CCH has partnered with Comtax to offer the Comtex System international taxation software in the U.S.

Thomson Reuters has introduced a bundled subscription package of its Checkpoint Learning accounting, tax and finance courses.

CCH has enhanced its CorpSystem Sales Tax Office software by integrating it with an exemption certificate management system from Imaging Science and Services Inc.

CCH has received Oracle’s nod for integrating two of its sales tax products with the latest Oracle E-Business Suite, allowing CCH to market the product specifically for Oracle users.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Wednesday on how the Tax Code’s burdens on individuals demonstrate the need for comprehensive tax reform.

Web-based sales and use tax compliance product developer Avalara announced an integration of its sales tax calculation and reporting product AvaTax Calc for Retail with Microsoft Dynamics AX.

CCH has expanded its Expert Treatise Library with two new treatises on international and state taxation.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released an upgraded version of the business intelligence reporting component of its indirect tax system.

The IRS has needed to deal with several challenges this tax filing season, including late tax law changes and an increase in the volume of telephone calls, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, but to ensure that the IRS can adequately enforce certain tax provisions, Congress should provide the IRS with math error authority to use tax return information from previous years to ensure that taxpayers do not improperly claim credits or deductions in excess of lifetime limits where applicable.

Cloud-based expense report and timesheet tracking application developer Nexonia Inc. has released a value-added tax tracking and management system designed to handle VATs across the world and perform different calculations for different types of expenses.

What you don’t know about taxes can cost you plenty—both in terms of paying too much, and making an error that triggers an audit.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released the print version of its new “WG&L VAT Handbook” to help practitioners cope with value-added taxes internationally.

A group calling itself US Uncut organized a series of protests over the weekend at Bank of America branches across the country to protest large corporations with unpaid income taxes.

Before 2007, any part of a mortgage forgiven after a foreclosure, such as when the house was sold and the bank forgave a mortgage exceeding the home’s sale price, was considered taxable income, but that has changed now.

CCH has expanded its research resources with the CCH Expert Treatise Library, with the initial treatise covering the taxation of compensation and benefits.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has issued a comprehensive analysis of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 on its Checkpoint research service.

CCH has upgraded its IntelliConnect online tax and accounting research service with improvements in its user interface, search features and research tools.