Income Tax

Following the passage of the extenders legislation, the Internal Revenue Service announced today it anticipates opening the 2015 filing season as scheduled in January.

For parents who have children in college, or for the students themselves, there may be at least one more check you should send out before the end of the year: the tuition payment for the upcoming semester. By paying this bill before 2015, you may ...

Under the new tax law signed by the president on December 19, taxpayers can claim an optional tax deduction on their personal 2014 returns for state sales tax paid this year. And the sales tax you pay on a vehicle – usually, a significant amount – may ...

The time for clients to take required minimum distributions from their IRAs is rapidly dwindling. They have until December 31, 2014 to arrange for an RMD for the 2014 tax year. Otherwise, they could be slapped with a stiff tax penalty.

Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) who were asked for their top fraud predictions ...

Thomson Reuters Checkpoint has released RIA’s Complete Analysis of the Tax and ERISA Provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014, the 2015 Continuing Appropriations Act, and Other Acts of the 1

Suppose you need to sell stock to realize a capital gain or loss at the end of the year. As the time for the stock exchange to close business on December 31 nears, you pull the trigger on the transaction, just getting it in under the wire. Will the result

As part of its last moves before the holidays, the lame duck Congress and Senate passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, which primarily focused on many tax deductions and credits that had technically expired at the end of last year.