Prop. regs. issued on new qualified tips deduction

The proposed regulations clarify points including the interaction of qualifying occupations for which tips are customarily received with ineligible specified service trades or businesses.

AICPA tax policy and advocacy successes: 2025 highlights

The AICPA’s Tax Division volunteer committees and technical resource panels can point to many positive results last year from its advocacy to Treasury, the IRS, and Congress for law changes and administrative guidance.

Notice 2025-27 provides interim guidance on corporate AMT

The notice provides an optional interim simplified method of determining whether a corporation is an applicable corporation for purposes of the corporate AMT and relief from the Sec. 6655 penalty for underpayment of estimated tax with respect to a corporation’s corporate AMT liability.

Are you doing all you can to keep the cash method for your clients?

A passthrough entity business cannot use the cash method of accounting if it is classified as a syndicate. This article discusses this rule and ways a passthrough entity business that is currently not a syndicate can avoid being reclassified as one and losing the use of the cash method.