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The IRS is postponing the requirement to report partners’ shares of partnership capital on the tax-basis method for 2019 (for partnership tax years beginning in calendar 2019) until 2020 (for partnership tax years that begin on or after Jan. 1, 2020).
The IRS issued detailed guidance on the Sec. 59A base-erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT), which was added to the Code by the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
As it does every year, the IRS extended the due date to furnish certain health care information statements to individual taxpayers to March 2, 2020.
Download and print this quick guide for use during tax season, and look for our quick guide for individual taxpayers in the January 2020 issue.
The son, who inherited and received as gifts the interests in real estate partnerships, could treat nonrecourse debt as acquisition indebtedness, the Tax Court holds.
See what “bots” can do for tax practices and departments.
Change is hard, especially without a Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method.
An earlier notice's proposed rules are finalized with revisions and clarifications.
A reduced corporate tax rate could encourage changeover.
The copies were clearly labeled as such in attachments to the taxpayer's correspondence with the IRS and so did not purport to be returns, the Tax Court holds.
Travel per-diem rates updated ... IRS offers expatriate tax relief ... Voluntary compliance shrinks slightly
District court holds management contracts did not establish required period of customer use.
CPAs should review several key financial planning steps with newly single clients.
The IRS issued updated rules for substantiating the amount of ordinary and necessary business expenses paid or incurred while traveling using the per-diem rates.
The IRS issued final regulations that reconcile the current higher exclusion for the estate and gift tax unified credit amount in effect under the TCJA with the lower unified credit scheduled to go into effect in 2026.
The IRS updated its rules concerning the use of standard mileage rates and to reflect the current suspension of miscellaneous itemized deductions and moving expense deductions.
Speaking to the AICPA National Tax Conference in Washington, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig discussed possible Internal Revenue Service restructuring, more-targeted enforcement efforts and IRS use of data analytics.
Tax planning and return filing readiness depend in no small part on the actions of Congress and the IRS and Treasury in the countdown to 2020. Ed Karl, AICPA vice president–Taxation, gives some inside-the-Beltway prognostications.
The IRS released its updated procedures for automatic accounting method changes, which are accounting method changes that can be made without the IRS’s consent.
The IRS released the 2020 tax tables for individuals and estates and trusts, as well as the inflation adjustments for over 60 tax provisions for 2020 tax returns.
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