Black CPAs react to study led by Stanford University showing the IRS is up to 4.7 times more likely to audit Black taxpayers than non-Black ones, saying the tax system must be fairer.
The regulations would terminate the continued application of the Sec. 367(d) annual inclusion in certain cases when intangible property is repatriated to the United States after previously being transferred to a foreign corporation.
With COVID-19 no longer considered a national emergency, the IRS will return to public hearings for proposed regulations published in the Federal Register beginning in May while keeping telephone access as an option.
The new IRS commissioner tells the Senate Finance Committee the rate will be taken from the 2018 data because that’s the most recent year for which the IRS has final audit numbers.
The ruling, which is being obsoleted as of July 31, allowed a taxpayer that used the expense method for research and experimental expenditures to deduct on an amended return research and experimental expenditures the taxpayer did not deduct in prior years.
In a statement Wednesday, the AICPA said much of the IRS’s spending plan lines up with what the AICPA has requested but still recommends further improvements.
The IRS has issued proposed regulations that identify certain microcaptive transactions as listed transactions and certain others as transactions of interest.
In response to a requirement in the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, the IRS issued a notice Monday that allows donors to amend conservation easement deeds to substitute the safe-harbor language for the corresponding language in the original deed.
Six committees of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel — including the one focused on toll-free phone lines such as the Practitioner Priority Service line — meet to hear public suggestions for customer service days after the IRS released its plan for an $80 billion influx of money.
The IRS released its long-awaited strategic plan for spending the $80 billion it was allocated by last year’s Inflation Reduction Act. Over the first three years, the plan focuses on operations support, enforcement, business systems modernization, and taxpayer services.