Tax research

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.

Proprietary tax research platforms continue to grow despite the availability of free searches and materials over the Internet, with all the major publishers of Internet-based research reporting growth.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters is launching its first-ever series of federal tax eBooks, the first of which will be released on Friday.

CCH has introduced CCH Mobile, a mobile application that extends CCH’s IntelliConnect tax research service to the RIM BlackBerry and Apple iPhone, at its user conference in Orlando on Monday.

CCH has begun publishing some of its most popular accounting and tax books as eBooks, allowing readers to be able to store them on desktop and laptop computers, as well as Apple iPads and iPhones.

States and localities continued to raise their sales tax rates last quarter in order to generate more revenue to close their budget deficits, according to a new report.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released new Competency Model software for its Checkpoint Learning system that provides self-assessment tools to measure proficiency in the subjects studied by users, along with roadmaps for career development.

BNA has introduced an online tax research library with information on the latest state sales and use tax information.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters recently added several titles to Checkpoint, its research service with more than half a million users.

The real estate developer who is trying to set up a controversial Islamic cultural center two blocks away from Ground Zero reportedly owes New York City over $224,270 in back property taxes for the location.

CCH has expanded its Tax Prep Partner Series with four new compliance guidance titles.