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September 2, 2015 

Oregon Implements Automated Fuel Sales Tax Reporting System

Oregon can now support e-filing and online payment of motor fuel tax returns and refunds for thousands of companies doing business in the state. The system also helps simplify reporting of city and county fuel taxes by consolidating 15 different tax ...

Cari Weston

September 2, 2015 

AICPA Names New Director of Taxation

Weston had her own tax practice firm in Austin, Texas before she joined the AICPA in 2013 as senior technical manager of taxation. She has spent 20 years in public accounting.

 IRS Watchdog Issues Review of Agency’s Tax Credit Claims

September 1, 2015 

IRS Watchdog Issues Review of Agency’s Tax Credit Claims

The IRS’s processing of tax returns that reported or claimed Premium Tax Credits (PTC) during the 2015 filing season was challenged by delays in receiving data from some Health Insurance Marketplaces (Exchanges), according to ...

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September 1, 2015 

IRS Workers Busted for ID Theft, Filing Bogus Returns

Who can you trust with sensitive personal information like your Social Security number (SSN) and tax return data? Evidently, not even the people who used to work at the IRS. In a new case, a former IRS employee was sentenced on August 26 to two years ...

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September 1, 2015 

IRS Skipped Some Procedures When Selling Seized Properties

Over the past four fiscal years (2011 through 2014), the IRS has received approximately $114 million in proceeds from the sale of seized taxpayer assets. This audit was initiated to analyze the IRS’s seizure and sale program to determine whether the ...

Donald Trump

August 28, 2015 

Trump Says Some Wealthy Should Pay Higher Taxes, Including Himself

Donald Trump, the billionaire frontrunner for the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2016, says he wants to cut taxes for the middle class. And if that ends up increasing the tax burden for the wealthiest Americans, including himself, so be it

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August 28, 2015 

The Top Regulatory Issues for Small Businesses

Here is a list of the top regulatory issues that impacted businesses this summer and will continue to have an effect in the year ahead, according to Paychex, a provider of payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits ...

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August 26, 2015 

A Lawsuit the IRS Needs to Lose

The IRS needs to lose this case for the callous way they disregarded the importance of safeguarding taxpayer information from data thieves, and because it would finally set a legal precedent for organizations to be held fiscally responsible for losses ...

Dave McClure

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August 19, 2015 

Tax Alert: New Deadline for FBAR Filing

Due to a little-noticed provision in the new highway appropriations bill signed into law on July 31 – the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 – the deadline for filing an FBAR (Report of Financial Bank and Financial Accounts) has been moved up from June 30 to April 15. But...…

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August 19, 2015 

Highway Use Tax Returns Due Aug. 31

The deadline generally applies to Form 2290 and the accompanying tax payment for the tax year that begins July 1, 2015, and ends June 30, 2016. Returns must be filed and tax payments made by Aug. 31 for vehicles used on the road during July.