Taxes December 19, 2025
2025-2026 Tax Season Guide to OBBBA Tax Law Changes – SPECIAL SERIES
This series of articles spotlights key tax issues and changes made to tax law in 2025 and the years to come as a result of the OBBBA.
January 28, 2015
IRS Looking for Offshore Tax Schemes and Scams
Avoiding taxes by hiding money or assets in unreported offshore accounts remains on the annual Internal Revenue Service list of tax scams known as the “Dirty Dozen” for the 2015 filing season.
January 28, 2015
Intuit Partners with Uber to Simplify Bookkeeping for Drivers
Intuit and Uber are joining forces to make it easier for workers in the on-demand economy to file taxes and manage their finances throughout the year.
January 27, 2015
IRS Warns of Shady Tax Preparers, Advises Taxpayers to Use CPAs or EAs
The Internal Revenue Service is once again warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous income tax return preparers, one of the most common “Dirty Dozen” tax scams seen during tax season.
January 26, 2015
8 Tips to Reduce the Risk of Identity Theft
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a filing season alert warning taxpayers to watch out for identity theft at tax time, one of the year’s “Dirty Dozen” tax scams. The IRS continues to aggressively pursue the criminals that file fraudulent returns usi
January 26, 2015
National Average Sales Tax at 5.45%, While 201 Localities Changed Indirect Tax Policies
While the average U.S. sales tax rate remained unchanged in the fourth quarter, the number of indirect tax changes increased from the previous quarter, according to the latest ONESOURCE Indirect Tax report from Thomson Reuters.
January 26, 2015
There’s Still Some Juice Left in the Residential Energy Tax Credit for 2014 Returns
It’s not quite “lights out” yet for the residential energy credit. This tax break for homeowners, which has expired and been renewed numerous times in the past –sometimes with modifications -- was extended once again by the Tax Increase Prevention Act of
January 26, 2015
3 Ways Obamacare Affects Income Tax Returns
Unless you’ve been way out of touch, you probably know that a key part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, requires that taxpayers have qualifying health care coverage. Those without will need to qualify for an exemption, or pay a penalty.
January 26, 2015
Intuit Partners with Stripe to Simplify Taxes for Self-Employed Workers
Intuit has released a new integration with for marketplaces running on the Stripe online payment network. The features will allow “drivers”, "Rabbits" and "campaign creators" of sharing economy companies to automate tax reporting via the ...
January 24, 2015
R&D Tax Credit Survives Latest Round of Tax Legislation
The research credit is like the cat with nine lives…except it’s more. This credit, which technically expired after 2013, was just reinstated by the Tax Increase Prevention Act (TIPA) retroactive to January 1, 2014. By last count, it’s the 16th time ...
January 24, 2015
AICPA Urges Congress to Give IRS More Flexibility on Granting Tax Code Section 9100 Relief
The American Institute of CPAs is urging top tax lawmakers in the U.S. Congress and Senate to give the IRS the authority to grant relief in appropriate situations when taxpayers miss a statutory deadline or make an error in making an election.
January 23, 2015
6 Tips on Gambling and Income Taxes: Don’t Play the IRS for a Sucker
Gambling losses aren’t completely tax-deductible on their own, but you can write off losses up to the amount of your winnings. Those winnings are taxed at ordinary income rates reaching as high as 39.6% on the federal level.
January 22, 2015
IRS Shares List of ‘Dirty Dozen’ Income Tax Scams for 2015
Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain near the top of the annual "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams for the 2015 filing season.