The IRS has issued a fact sheet explaining the identity theft victim assistance process and procedures involved in resolving tax-related identity theft cases. The Form 14039, Identity Theft Affidavit, should be filed if the taxpayer attempts to file an electronic tax return and the IRS rejects it
Read more →April 2, 2018 The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today provided additional guidance (Notice 2018-26) for computing the “transition tax” on the untaxed foreign earnings of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted on Dec. 22, 2017. The Treasury
Read more →Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter on April 12 provided lawmakers with an update on the 2018 tax filing season and IRS operations. Kautter, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee (SFC), told lawmakers that the 2018 filing season has gone well with regard to tax return processing and
Read more →House Ways and Means Democrats, in a March 5 letter to Acting IRS Commissioner David J. Kautter, criticized the Service’s interpretation of certain provisions within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). In the letter to Kautter, lawmakers accused the IRS of alleged “bureaucratic overreach.”
Read more →President Trump has announced his intent to nominate Michael J. Desmond as IRS chief counsel and assistant general counsel at Treasury. Desmond, currently a tax attorney, has run his own law firm in California for the last six years. He has represented businesses and individuals in tax
Read more →Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told House lawmakers in a March 6 hearing that the IRS needs additional funding to properly implement the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Mnuchin’s testimony before the House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee centered on the Trump Administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget
Read more →The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Taxation, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the National Society of Accountants (NSA) are urging lawmakers to fully fund the IRS, especially as the Service works to implement the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The professional associations highlighted the IRS’s
Read more →President Trump on February 8 announced his nomination of Charles P. Rettig for IRS Commissioner. Rettig is currently a tax attorney in California. “During his 35+ year professional career with Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, PC, Chuck Rettig has represented numerous taxpayers before every administrative level
Read more →BUSINESSES Corporate Taxes H.R. 1 calls for a 21-percent corporate tax rate beginning in 2018. The new law makes the new rate permanent. The maximum corporate tax rate currently tops out at 35 percent. Although the current 2017 maximum corporate tax rate is 35 percent, many corporations
Read more →The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) has been approved by Congress and signed by President Trump. After a last-minute procedural glitch that required the Senate to vote first on the final bill, the most sweeping change to the U.S. tax code in decades cleared the
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