President Obama and Tax Reform

White House website ; speech of 7/30/13 On July 30, 2013, President Obama laid ou t some items he would like to see as part of tax reform. A...

Small business tax reform

On July 17, 2013, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held a roundtable on " Small Business Tax Reform:  Makin...

Seven Signs We'll Have Tax Reform in 2014

Did you hear that the chairs of the congressional tax committees were in Minneapolis on July 8 talking about tax reform? It's part of th...

Little noticed tax bill enacted

On June 25, 2013, P.L. 113-15 was enacted to expand the vaccine excise tax provision of IRC Sections 4131 and 4132 .  It adds vaccines again...

National Taxpayer Advocate Comments on IRS

Source: NTA FY2014 Objectives report , page 34 The mid-year report of the IRS National Taxpayer Advocate , Nina Olson, addresses several key...

Time to justify your favored tax breaks - if you can

On June 27, 2013, Senator Baucus, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee and Senator Hatch, Ranking Member of the committee issued a call to ...

GAO Report on Virtual Economies and Currencies - GAO conference call on June 19

This week, the GAO released a report on a lurking e-commerce taxation topic - Virtual Economies and Currencies - Additional IRS Guidance cou...

The Section 501(c)(4) Story

I was intrigued by all of the news in the few weeks about review of 501(c)(4) applications by the IRS and some related issues.  As I dug int...

GAO video on tax expenditures

The GAO issued a few reports this year on tax expenditures. I just watched their 4 1/2 minute video released May 30, 2013 on one of the repo...

More on Marketplace Fairness Act - Definitional Flaws for "Small"

I've got a new post on tax policy at SalesTaxSupport.com, entitled Marketplace Fairness: Small Seller Exception Definitional Flaws . Ple...

Marketplace Fairness Infographic

French Task Force Report on Taxation of the Digital Economy

In January 2013, a task force commissioned by the French Finance Ministry, released a "thinking outside of the box" report on new ...