The IRS expects to issue guidance on the Code Sec. 199A passthrough deduction in July, Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter has said. Kautter outlined the timeline of various guidance proposals at the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Taxation May Meeting in Washington, D.C. Proposed Guidance More
Read more →House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal, D-Mass., has asked the Treasury and the IRS for guidance on the tax code’s new pass-through deduction. In a May 1 letter, Neal asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. and Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter, for clarifying guidance on
Read more →President Donald Trump and the House’s top tax writer think Congress and the president should work to make the tax code better every year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Tex., said in an interview that he and the president share this goal and are
Read more →The IRS has provided an automatic consent procedure for taxpayers to change to an accounting method that uses new standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for recognizing revenue from customer contracts. Revenue Recognition Accounting Method Change On
Read more →The IRS has announced initial guidance for computing the business interest expense deduction under Code Sec. 163(j) effective for tax years beginning after 2017, and aspects that will be covered in future regulations. The deduction is generally limited to the taxpayer’s business interest income plus 30 percent
Read more →Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter told lawmakers on April 11 that implementing tax reform is one of the IRS’s highest priorities, but issuing guidance will likely take years. “Preliminary efforts to implement this new law are already underway,” Kautter said during a House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee
Read more →The House Ways and Means Committee, in an April 11 markup, approved a bipartisan package of nine bills to restructure the IRS for the first time in 20 years. The IRS reform package was approved in committee by a voice vote and is reportedly expected to reach
Read more →The IRS has urged specific groups of taxpayers to check if the right amount of tax is being withheld from their paychecks following the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law increased the standard deduction, eliminated personal exemptions, increased the Child Tax Credit (CTC),
Read more →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
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