Tax Law Access in the 21st Century - Guest Post

I am pleased to publish a guest post from Ari Hershowitz of Tabulaw who also blogs at http://blog.tabulaw.com/ . Ari is focused on finding a...

California budget deal and taxes

As reported today, the current version of the California budget does not include the renewal of earlier tax rate increases, but relies on sp...

Sales Tax Collection on Internet Sales

The drama continues ... States continue to try to find ways to get Internet retailers to collect sales tax from in-state customers rather th...

What's Next - California Deliberative Poll

There is something fascinating going on in Torrance this weekend - a Deliberative Poll (click here ). There are over 300 randomly selected C...

Corporate Tax Reform at the State Level

In the past year, a few states - Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina and Vermont, have released reports from tax commissions on tax issues and...

IRS Increases Standard Mileage Rate - Good Tax Policy?

The IRS released Announcement 2011-40 to let people know that starting July 1, 2011, the standard mileage rate for claiming such an expense...

Texas, South Carolina and Internet sales tax collection

A story in the Statesman.com on 6/20/11 describes a "deal" Texas lawmakers are considering that would likely entice Amazon to have...

State income taxation of mobile employees - why the focus on source rather than residency?

When an employee is sent to another state to work on a project, help a client, etc., the employer needs to know when that state will start r...

Tax 2025

Last week I attended a 2025 Horizons forum sponsored by the AICPA . This is a project where the AICPA is updating its vision 2011 and consi...

Maybe There is Too Much Process - Guest Post

I'm pleased to publish a guest post from Peter Reilly, CPA, who blogs at Passive Activities and Other Oxymorons . Peter always provides ...

More on regulating tax return preparers

I posted a few days ago about a good number of recent developments in the IRS program to regulate paid tax return preparers ( 6/10/11 ). Sin...

PTIN - The Ever Evolving Story

The IRS program to regulate all paid return preparers continues to unfold. The IRS has selected the company to administer testing and this w...

Tax Reform and Small Businesses

I'm pleased to be guest blogger at Franchise Help for a few posts that will address the current tax reform discussions as relevant to f...

Health Care, the Modern Workforce and Tax Reform

McKinsey Quarterly for June 2011 includes an article - How US health care reform will affect employee benefits . It summarizes a survey of ...

Budget Deficit and Related News

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the budget deficit for the first 2/3 of this fiscal year is $929 billion! This is $6 bill...

House Hearing on Business Tax Reform

On June 2, 2011, the House Ways & Means Committee, continuing its series of tax reform hearings, held one on Business Tax Reform and Job...

Texas Governor Vetoes Affiliate Nexus Bill HB 2403

HB 2403 , an "affiliate nexus" bill that passed in the Texas legislature, was vetoed by Governor Perry on 5/31/11. In his veto mes...

Tax Practitioners and Tax Reform

I'm honored to be a guest blogger this week on Peter Reilly's blog - Passive Activities and Other Oxymorons . A great blog where Pet...