Tax strategies

Odds have now turned against those hoping that the health care law passed in 2010 will "just go away."

If you’re an Olympic gymnast and you fail to do all of the moves in a compulsory routine, you’re subject to a mandatory deduction. Does the same thing apply to tax deductions?

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced on Monday a version of the middle-class tax cut extension legislation that passed the Senate last week.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he would allow a vote next week on legislation that House Democrats plan to introduce to extend the expiring Bush tax cuts for middle-class taxpayers, while Republicans also plan a vote on their own proposal to extend tax cuts for taxpayers at all income levels.

The Treasury Department released a model intergovernmental agreement Thursday for implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, developed in consultation with France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced two pieces of legislation Thursday to provide tax credits for clean energy manufacturing and renew the Build America Bonds program.

The Senate voted mostly along party to pass a Democratic bill to extend the Bush tax cuts for household incomes below $250,000 a year after rejecting a Republican bill to extend them for taxpayers at all income levels.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Wednesday to look at access to education and tax reform, whether the complex array of tax incentives are contributing to the increasing cost of a college education.

With an eye toward wins in the November elections, House Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday that aims to streamline the procedures for enacting tax reforms next year.

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on legislation to force online retailers to charge sales taxes to customers, even as industry groups banded together to oppose the bill and others like it.

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced legislation Tuesday to extend the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit and the American Opportunity Tax Credit for tuition and related expenses.

House Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent the Bush tax cuts from expiring.

An increasing number of business entities, including investment funds like the Carlyle Group, along with private hedge funds, private equity firms and venture capital funds, largely escape Internal Revenue Service audits due to the way they are organized, according to a new report.

New estimates from Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation indicate that millionaires would benefit a disproportionate amount from extending the tax cuts for income at all levels.

The American Institute of CPAs has recommended a modification to Internal Revenue Service guidance that governs the treatment of retail gift cards when the issuance and redemption of a card is handled by financially unrelated entities.

It’s not just the presence of taxes, it’s the anticipation of the future tax landscape that plays a decisive role in decisions made by small businesses.

Faced with possible dissent in their party, U.S. Senate Democrats are dropping estate tax language backed by President Barack Obama from their proposal to extend most George W. Bush-era tax cuts through 2013.

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have introduced a bill to provide tax credits to businesses that brings jobs and business operations back to the U.S. from abroad.

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A new report from Ernst & Young finds that allowing tax cuts to expire for upper-income taxpayers would cost the economy approximately 710,000 jobs.