The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has released a report regarding the implementation of new tax return-related data elements based on the 2015 Security Summit, Protecting Taxpayers from Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud. TIGTA has concluded that tax-related identity thefts adversely affect the ability of
Read more →The IRS has issued temporary regulations under Code Sec. 7701 to clarify that a disregarded entity that is treated as a corporation for employment tax purposes is not treated as a corporation for purposes of employing an individual who is a partner in a partnership that owns
Read more →President Obama signed into law the American Manufacturing and Competitiveness Act of 2016 on May 20. The bill was approved by the House on April 27th and passed the Senate on May 10th. The new law calls for a three-step process under the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB)
Read more →On Wednesday, the IRS announced that affected taxpayers of the severe storms and flooding that took place beginning on April 17, 2016 who reside or have a business in Fayette, Grimes, Harris and Parker Counties may qualify for tax relief may qualify for tax relief from the
Read more →Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, held a hearing on October 1 to examine solutions addressing overpayments of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as with Medicare and Medicaid, whose oversight is conducted by the committee. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has reported
Read more →The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state, according to the Supreme Court. The Court held that “the
Read more →Do you own your own business or are in business with several partners? Are you a CEO of a fairly decent size company with multiple key employees? Do you have a plan in place to address the sudden loss of your partner, your top performing employees, or
Read more →On Thursday, April 30th, two senior members of the House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady, R-Tex., and Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., reintroduced legislation, the Real Estate Investment and Jobs Bill of 2015 (HR 2128), that would remove a 1980s era tax provision that discourages foreign investment in U.S.
Read more →As companies assess the political landscape for 2015 they will also find an evolving economic outlook, and a heightened focus on tax transparency that could add “incredible uncertainty” to the tax outlook in 2015, says KPMG. Therefore, business executives will need to keep a close eye on
Read more →The IRS’s anticipated fiscal year (“FY”) 2015 budget took center stage at the IRS Oversight Board’s last meeting of 2014. Senior IRS officials remain concerned about potential funding reductions in FY 2015 but are committed to implementing unfunded mandates, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
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