Tax strategies

It’s the time of year when investors examine their portfolio and seek to harvest built-in tax losses. But short sellers who wish to harvest their losses should keep a close eye on the calendar.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.

The House has approved tax extenders legislation that makes a number of the periodically expiring tax breaks into permanent features of the tax code.

Are your clients prepared for the latest round of Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance deadlines?

Wolters Kluwer has introduced two new learning certification programs for tax professionals.

A new academic study pours cold water on the notion that companies that promote their social responsibility efforts are any better at paying their taxes than regular corporations.

Michael Sonnenblick of Thomson Reuters discusses how tax loss harvesting can help investors save on taxes, along with some of the risks.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

In July my column for this space asked whether it was too early to start thinking about tax extenders. Now, the question might better be phrased whether it is too late.

Michael Sonnenblick of Thomson Reuters discusses some of the main issues for next tax season, such as the Premium Tax Credit and the deduction for state and local taxes.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Congress to take action against companies that avoid taxes by shifting their debt to American soil while moving profit overseas, a technique known as earnings stripping, and said that if they don’t, the Treasury Department should crack down with new rules.

As 2015 comes to a close, businesses are once again facing uncertainty as Congress has yet to act on a host of important provisions that expired at the end of 2014.

Helping clients make minimum distributions go further

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Most families aren’t tax professionals, and that’s why they come to you in the first place.

The House and Senate held hearings Tuesday on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting action plan, also known as OECD BEPS, for combating tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

Congressional staff reportedly worked over the Thanksgiving weekend on negotiations over tax extenders, the dozens of expiring and already expired tax breaks that perennially occupy Washington just before the end of the year.

The National Society of Accountants is offering some year-end tax tips for businesses, courtesy of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US.