Some brokerage customers of Fidelity Investments won’t receive Forms 1099-B until after the newly extended Feb. 17 general deadline for sending out the information returns, the company said Thursday. Fidelity, the nation’s largest mutual fund company, asked for and received from the IRS an additional extension to the end
Advertisement
TOPICS / TAX
Individual income taxation
Early Tax Returns Show Numerous Recovery Rebate Errors
The IRS reported on Jan. 30 that an early sampling of this year’s tax returns shows great confusion about last year’s recovery rebate. According to the Service, about 15% of all individual tax returns filed so far contain errors involving the recovery rebate credit. The mistakes include returns that claim
Line Items
COMMENTS SOUGHT ON REVISED SSTSThe AICPA released for comment an exposure draft of proposed revisions to Statements on Standards for Tax Services (SSTS). The revisions are intended to address changes in federal and state tax laws and new requirements for providing certain types of tax opinions. SSTS no. 1, Tax
Income Tax Rates Fall as Governments Compete Globally
Income tax rates are falling as governments feel the pressure to compete due to increasing global labor mobility. Top personal income tax rates around the world have fallen by an average of 2.5 percentage points in the past six years, according to KPMG’s Individual Income Tax Rate Survey 2008. Worldwide,
Creating Joint Ownership: Avoiding the Tax Traps and Other Pitfalls
Many property owners add their children and other family members to the title of their property without thinking through the consequences. Many seem to favor joint tenancy—a convenient way to ensure that assets will ultimately pass to family members without the need for probate and other costs. Joint tenancy—commonly referred
IRS Updates Maximum Values for Employee Automobile Use
The IRS has updated for 2009 the maximum allowable value of an employer-provided vehicle for which the cents-per-mile and fleet-average rules may be used in determining the value of an employee’s personal use of the vehicle as a taxable fringe benefit. Revenue Procedure 2009-12, issued by the Service on Wednesday,
New Regs Govern Overseas Disclosure and Use of Taxpayer Information
Editor’s note: This article appears in the February 2009 issue of The Tax Adviser, the AICPA’s monthly journal of tax planning, trends and techniques. Sec. 7216 and the regulations thereunder were promulgated to set guidelines and impose restrictions on the use and disclosure of taxpayer information by tax return
Proposed Regs Provide Model for Stock Basis Recovery and Identification
On Jan. 21, the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations (REG-143686-07) that provide shareholders with guidance on allocating and recovering stock basis in section 301 distributions. Their purpose is to present a single model for stock basis recovery when a shareholder receives a constructive or actual distribution to which section 301
Effects of Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Provisions on Individuals
Editor’s note: This article appears in the January 2009 issue of The Tax Adviser, the AICPA’s monthly journal of tax planning, trends and techniques. On October 3, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, P.L. 110-343. The act provides alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief,
IRS Explains How Unmarried Taxpayers Allocate First-Time Homebuyer Credit
The IRS has issued Notice 2009-12 to explain how the IRC § 36 first-time homebuyer credit should be allocated between unmarried taxpayers who buy a principal residence together. Section 36 was added to the Code last year by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, PL 110-289. It gives
IRS Issues Final Preparer Penalty Regs
Editor’s note: This article appears in the February 2009 issue of The Tax Adviser, the AICPA’s monthly journal of tax planning, trends and techniques. The IRS issued final regulations (T.D. 9436) implementing the changes to the Sec. 6694 tax return preparer penalties made by the Small Business and Work
Tax Season Launches
The 2009 income tax filing season got under way Friday, Jan. 16, as the IRS began accepting electronic filing of returns due April 15 for calendar year 2008. E-filing, available through tax preparation software used by most return preparers and many self-filing taxpayers, is again being promoted by the IRS as
IRS Webcast to Address Filing Season Updates, Issues
The IRS’s next Tax Talk Today webcast, “Getting Ready for Filing Season 2009,” which gives tax professionals and preparers the latest updates on tax forms, laws and IRS processing issues for the upcoming filing season, will air Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. EST. The program will offer tips on
Stock Loan Treated as Sale
The value of a couple’s stock securing a loan could not be deducted as a theft loss, even though the stock was sold without the borrowers’ knowledge, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled. Other claims, including whether, as the government argued, the loan was really
Line Item: AMT Relief in Bailout Bill
Besides “patching” the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount for 2008 (to $69,950 for joint filers and $46,200 for singles), the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (PL 110-343) increased the portion of the long-term unused minimum tax credit (MTC) that can be claimed in a year. Under prior law,
Late Returns, Late Wife
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana held that a taxpayer could use the married filing jointly status on delinquent tax returns for the five tax years preceding the year his spouse had died. The government unsuccessfully argued that joint status was available only for the year
New Treatment for Second-Home Proceeds
The 2008 Housing and Economic Recovery Act, enacted in late July, changes the rules for the partial exclusion of gain from the sale of a residence. For sales after Dec. 31, 2008, the IRC § 121 exclusion of gain will not apply to any gain allocated to a period of
AMT Relief in Bailout Bill
Besides “patching” the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amount for 2008 (to $69,950 for joint filers and $46,200 for singles), the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (PL 110-343) increased the portion of the long-term unused minimum tax credit (MTC) that can be claimed in a year. Under prior law,
Widow of Ex-San Francisco Mayor Held to Be an Innocent Spouse
The widow of Joe Alioto, who served as the mayor of San Francisco from 1968 to 1976, was granted relief under section 6015(f) from paying nearly $2 million in taxes for tax years 1995 and 1996. The Tax Court had dismissed the case in September 1996 due to lack of
Features
ALSO FEATURED
How to protect nonprofits from hidden fraud risks
CPAs can help not-for-profits spot the red flags of common schemes, so they can take steps to tighten controls and reduce exposure.
From The Tax Adviser
March 31, 2026
Current developments in taxation of individuals: Part 1
March 31, 2026
Current Developments in Taxation of Individuals: Part 1
March 6, 2026
