Filing season idea - recalculate for tax reform

With all of the talk about tax reform - although usually without details, but having your 2011 tax return information, why not recalculate i...

Buffett Rule, Upper Income Taxpayers and Errors and Omissions

The White House has released more information about the "Buffett rule" which calls for individuals making over $1 million to have ...

State tax challenges of taxing digital items and possible federal assistance

Letter Ruling 2012-06 from the Hawaii Department of Taxation is a reminder of challenges of applying sales tax to software and other digita...

Tax oddities and challenges of compliance

An article in BloombergBusinessweek - "Yoga Gets Off the Mat to Fight New York's Tax Man" by Caroline Winter (4/4/12), is a r...

Tax gap, tax-cheating software tools and what to do

Zappers are a device that allows some sales to just not get reported. They are also known as “automated sales suppression devices." An ...

National Taxpayer Advocate Trying to Move IRS Into the 21st Century

On April 4, 2012, the National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, posted news about a new project from her office to help the IRS move into the ...

Reforms desired by businesses

Recently, the Kogod Tax Center at American University and Bloomberg BNA released the results of a survey where advisers of both small busine...