Taxes

I have a weird habit of remembering what I paid for things. Yes, I am the person that can tell you the approximate date I bought an item and how much I paid for it. This is particularly the case if I got something for a bargain. It took a while to figure out that

Today was the first day of school for my son. His schedule was packed with math, foreign languages, English, science—but not economics or financial literacy. Many schools don’t offer those kinds of classes. Just about half of states require either a personal finance or economics course to graduate high school, which might explain why, as

Google, Meta, and several tax prep companies, including H&R Block and TaxAct, are fielding an escalating number of U.S. lawsuits alleging that they allowed tracking pixels to unlawfully collect taxpayers’ confidential information as they filed their federal income tax returns online. The claims, which were first reported in November 2022 by investigative news outlet The

The IRS is again pushing off a start date for new legislation by introducing a transition period. Earlier, the IRS declared a one-year delay in the new reporting requirement for Forms 1099-K. The IRS has now announced an administrative transition period for the new catch-up contribution requirements under the SECURE 2.0 Act. Background SECURE 2.0

Tongues were wagging this morning after a Zillow update reportedly indicated that former President Donald J. Trump sold Mar-a-Lago for $422 million. As of this writing, the listing on Zillow’s website shows that a 5,061-square-foot residence at 1100 S. Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, was sold on Friday, August 4, 2023. According to the

I hate having the first thing I hear about a fantastic scheme to be that the IRS is onto it. That is what happened with the “copyrighted non-grantor irrevocable complex discretionary spendthrift trust” which sprinkled tax fairy dust on your assets so that no taxes need be paid on capital gains and other investment income.

Tax Notes contributing editor Ryan Finley provides an overview of amount B from pillar 1 of the OECD’s two-pillar corporate tax reform plan and discusses the fundamental dispute over it. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes

Australia is reeling from a billion-dollar TikTok tax fraud scheme. Apparently, social media influencers helped entice nearly 60,000 people to claim fraudulent refunds on goods and services taxes that they never actually paid. The social media posts reportedly promised that the refunds were like a temporary loan from the government, but that turned out to

The ERC is a refundable tax credit designed for businesses who continued paying employees while shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic or who had significant declines in gross receipts from March 13, 2020, to Dec. 31, 2021. That’s a limited period, but businesses can typically file claims for the credit until April 15, 2025.

It’s been just over three and a half years since Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, declared that Covid-19 constituted a public health emergency. In the months that followed, government officials scrambled to find a way to ease economic shortfalls related to the pandemic through a series of tax breaks, forgivable

A recent tax case is one of the saddest ever and shows how the tax law often has intended consequences. The taxpayers were a married couple who inherited a business from the husband’s brother. After a couple of years, the husband discovered the business manager was stealing. He fired the manager and put his stepdaughter,

Users of tax prep websites in seven states have filed a class action lawsuit against Google GOOG , LLC, claiming the company engaged in wiretapping. According to court documents, the company’s actions allegedly resulted in the involuntary transmission of sensitive personal information including income, refund amounts, filing status, and scholarship information. Google Analytics According to

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin This segment of What’s Ahead lays out the telltale signs for a possible Reaganesque candidate emerging from tomorrow’s Republican debate. Reagan projected an exciting, optimistic view of the future, while effectively eviscerating the destructive policies and principles of his opponents. He never came across as acerbic

Section 871(m) treats payments under equity derivative contracts that reference U.S.-source dividends as if they are equivalent to U.S.-source dividends, potentially triggering a U.S. withholding tax. Reg. section 1.871-15(q) interprets section 871(m) to exempt qualified derivatives dealers (QDDs) from tax and withholding requirements if overwithholding would occur. Published September 12, 2022, Notice 2022-37, 2022-37 IRB

The Basics of ERC A recurring concept in the media is the Employee Retention Credit. The ERC is a refundable payroll tax credit that can be as high as $5,000 per employee in 2020, and even as high as $21,000 per employee in 2021. Employers qualify as an eligible employer under three circumstances: (i) Recovery

IRS Criminal Investigation officials have identified the individual killed Aug. 17 in a training incident at the Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix, firing range. The deceased is Special Agent Patrick Bauer, 47, a long-time resident of Arizona. Bauer is survived by his wife and four children. In addition to being a special agent, Bauer was a

The IRS has announced expansive tax relief for Hawaii wildfire victims in Maui and Hawaii counties. These taxpayers now have until Feb. 15, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The IRS is offering relief to any area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This means

Mark Holmes is noted as being one of the better writers among Tax Court judges. His work on the Estate of Michael Jackson read like a novel. This month he may have gone off the beam a bit in a bench opinion. There is something rather tasteless in bringing up glue factories in the context

On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which affects tax, energy, and healthcare laws. Its tax measures primarily include: a corporate alternative minimum tax; an excise tax on corporate stock repurchases; increased funding for the IRS; extensions of Affordable Care Act credits; and green energy credits. Corporate AMT The IRA imposes

Tom Cullinan, a former IRS official now with Chamberlain Hrdlicka, discusses the basics of the employee retention credit, the recent rise in misleading promotions and fraudulent ERC claims, and the IRS’s response. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax