Tax strategies

More than 70 percent of 861 CPAs polled in December by the New Jersey Society of CPAs predicted their individual and family clients in New Jersey would face increased taxes due to the Republican tax plans from both the House and the Senate.

Congress is giving finance officials at America’s colleges and universities even more to worry about.

A funny thing happened when Congress approved a tax cut for the middle class eight years ago: Most Americans didn’t notice.

Accountants and tax pros share the most questionable ventures they were asked to advise clients on.

Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block are providing advice to people who invested in digital currency.

The White House supports tweaking final tax legislation to appease lawmakers who want to let constituents deduct state income taxes, according to National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

Use this time of year to do some casual research.

Making money in the stock market could get more expensive.

Taxpayers can expect many of their cherished deductions for charitable contributions, family members, and state and local taxes to go away under the Senate tax reform legislation.

Potential code changes call for action before Dec. 30.

Clients who own small companies may have maximized their retirement plan contributions, but are they maximizing their tax savings?

As Congress prepares to combine the House and Senate bills, these changes to the code look highly likely to be part of the final legislation.

Expiring tax cuts, business perks and health care politics loom over House and Senate Republicans as they face the daunting task of hammering out the differences between their competing bills to rewrite the U.S. tax code.

Senate Republicans narrowly approved the most sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code in three decades, slashing the corporate tax rate and providing temporary tax-rate cuts for most Americans.

Traditional cost accounting for mixed-use residential projects often does not properly allocate all construction costs to each section of the property.

As if the Republican tax reform plan wasn’t bad enough already for taxpayers, the latest scheme to win over more votes of a precarious Senate majority involves adding a “trigger” to raise certain taxes if there isn’t enough economic growth to cover the $1.4 trillion cost of the bill, though the Senate's parliamentarian appears to have just shot down that proposal.

A push by some Republican senators to ward off future deficits by tucking a potential corporate tax increase into their tax-overhaul bill would set up a kind of economic booby trap—putting the GOP’s much-desired growth at risk, according to a half-dozen economists, lobbyists and tax experts.

The tax reform bills passed by the House, and soon to be passed by the Senate, have many similarities. And you can count on measures that are the same in both bills to end up in the final version to be signed by the President.

In the rush to borrow before the Republican tax bill reshapes the debt market, states and municipalities are paying up. The biggest spree of debt issuance in more than a decade has pushed up borrowing costs and eroded returns in the $3.8 trillion municipal-debt market.

Some Republican senators hate that they’re about to vote for a bill that cuts individual tax rates before raising them back in a few years.