February 5, 2015
The fuel tax credit is generally limited to off-highway business use or use in farming. Consequently, the credit is not available to most taxpayers. But yet, the IRS routinely finds unscrupulous preparers who have enticed sizable groups of taxpayers ...
February 4, 2015
Bloomberg BNA has released new search enhancements to the Bloomberg BNA Tax & Accounting Center. The new features, called Links and Pages, are designed to help tax practitioners directly access key tax topics, tax summaries of key ...
February 4, 2015
KPMG Tax partner Joseph Pacello has authored a new book, titled "Tax Compliance and Reporting for Hedge Funds and Their Investors," that provides a detailed look at tax compliance and reporting issues for professionals responsible for tax compliance ...
February 3, 2015
The U.S. Social Security Administration has announced that new online services include the ability to quickly and easily get a replacement form SSA-1099 within minutes.
February 3, 2015
The Internal Revenue Service is targeting abusive tax shelters and structures it says some Americans use to avoid paying taxes. The agency says the problem has been a lingering issue, and so it has been added to the annual list of tax scams known as the “
January 29, 2015
The 1040 Checklist for Determining Minimum Essential Health Insurance Coverage was developed by the tax experts at Thomson Reuters and focuses on two new reporting requirements that will figure prominently on many 2014 Form 1040 returns: The premium tax c
January 29, 2015
It’s very rare in the tax world when you can “get something for nothing.” But that’s essentially what happens when a real estate owner donates a qualified conservation easement to charity. In essence, the property owner is merely agreeing to keep the land
January 29, 2015
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint has released a special report, Capitalizing or Deducting Expenditures under the Tangible Property Regulations. The report is intended to help guide tax practitioners in determining which expenditures on tangible properties ...
January 29, 2015
The symposium focused on combatting offshore tax evasion and international financial crimes—including cyber-crime—and brought together delegates from criminal tax and enforcement programs from the U.S., Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand, ...
January 28, 2015
The currency of the Internet today is not BitCoin, it is not the dozens of “wallet” products used to buy products, and it is not even the “accounts” that have to be set up and loaded from a credit card to make purchases on the never-ending stream of .l..
January 28, 2015
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Private Company Council (PCC) will host their fourth Private Company Town Hall Meeting on April 28, 2015, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The town hall meeting will take place from
January 28, 2015
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.