The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the sentence and dismissed an appeal of a former FBI informant who admitted to providing false information regarding bribes he said were accepted by then-Vice ...

Courts must first determine the economic substance doctrine’s relevance to a transaction before the IRS can raise a challenge under it, a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy organization told the Fifth ...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey proposed a two-month suspension of the state’s gas tax to help offset rising costs for drivers, endorsing a policy that’s also been pushed by the Republican ...

Longtime tax-writing Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) is on his way out. Whoever takes over the House Ways and Means Committee’s Social Security subcommittee next Congress will have their work cut out for ...

A partnership’s US Tax Court petition filed after the 90-day window may be heard because extraordinary circumstances outside of the entity’s control prevented it from filing on time, the Tax Court ...

The Justice Department told an appeals court it largely agrees with the religious groups suing it over how far churches can wade into politics and still keep their tax-exempt status.

Taxpayers may have to state whether they’re legally in the US if a draft of a common annual tax form floated by the IRS gets adopted for the next filing season.

The IRS issued an announcement revoking its determinations that 12 organizations qualify as tax-exempt organizations under I.R.C. §501(c)(3) and as eligible recipients of deductible charitable ...

The U.S. Tax Court held that a tax preparer’s underpayments for tax years 2009 through 2011 were attributable to fraud, sustaining the IRS’s deficiency determinations and civil fraud penalties. The ...

The IRS issued a notice extending for two additional years, through 2028, the phase-in period for enforcement and administration of the regulations under I.R.C. §871(m) governing dividend equivalent ...

The notice pertains to code section Section 871 (m), on prevention of non-US taxpayers avoiding withholding tax on dividends. The Treasury Department and IRS have previously extended the transition ...

Some of California’s largest personal income and corporate tax incentives will be subject to independent reviews under legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Sunday.