Individual Income Taxation
The IRS also expanded and clarified the instructions for answering the question to help taxpayers answer it correctly. Taxpayers must answer the question even if they didn’t engage in activities involving digital assets, just as in the 2021 tax year.
Nearly 12 million taxpayers received refunds for 2020 through automatic corrections the IRS made because the American Rescue Plan Act added an exclusion for unemployment compensation after some taxpayers had already filed their returns.
The year-end appropriations act included the Secure 2.0 Act, which makes many changes to the retirement plan rules, including expanding automatic enrollment and increasing the starting age for required minimum distributions.
An art dealer and collector lacked reasonable cause for failing to properly document a sculpture’s value, the Tax Court holds.
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The divorce instrument included a child-related contingency, the Tax Court holds.
In October, the IRS said it would leave Free File open for an extra month, until Thursday, so eligible taxpayers can claim their share of several benefits including the 2021 recovery rebate credit, the child tax credit, and the earned income tax credit.
CPAs can play crucial roles in helping navigate the evolving landscape as state tax authorities ramp up efforts to source additional revenue from out-of-state workers and the companies they work for.
The Social Security Administration announced the maximum amount of wages subject to Social Security tax in 2023 and a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits. The COLA is 8.7%.
Previous regulations had based the affordability of employer-offered coverage for family members on the cost of an employee’s self-only coverage.
Under Notice 2022-44, the high-low method rates will be slightly higher and the list of high-cost localities in the continental United States is revised, both effective Oct. 1.
Relief is only available for income tax liabilities on a joint return.
The IRS failed to take proper precautions to abate a couple’s discharged tax debt, a bankruptcy court holds, but it denies attorneys’ fees.
In a comment letter to the IRS, the AICPA recommended changes and clarifications regarding the tax treatment of cryptoassets or “virtual currency.”
The IRS explained the new requirement that a car’s or truck’s final assembly occurred in North America to qualify for the tax credit on the purchase of clean-running vehicles.
In denying relief, the court finds that the Office of Chief Counsel’s litigating position is independent of its request for a determination by a specialized unit.
A bankruptcy court holds that the taxpayers’ return was an honest and reasonable attempt to comply with the tax law.
Administrative expenses and claims against estates allowable under Sec. 2053 beyond a three-year grace period would be discounted for current deduction, under proposed rules issued by the IRS.
Nonresident alien amended returns and those for Puerto Rico residents are added; superseding returns can be designated.
Last week’s bump was the third midyear increase in the past 14 years, and it came after members of Congress wrote to the IRS about rising fuel prices.