Tax Reform
Several provisions restrict the IRS’s authority to gather information or impose an obligation on the agency to share information or documents with taxpayers that can prove beneficial to taxpayers and their representatives.
The bill establishes an independent appeals office and requires the IRS to develop a customer service strategy. A controversial provision codifying the Free File program was dropped from the bill.
House-passed legislation includes goals for improving the IRS but lacks descriptions of specific reforms and the funding needed.
Tax administration, post–tax reform, is markedly different than before, for several reasons.
Find out about a new requirement for life insurance companies to report sales of life insurance policies.
Editor's note: Thank you for your interest in this article. The deductibility of business meals is an evolving issue under P.L. 115-97, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and this article is no longer available.
This column summarizes the federal tax law changes under reform enacted in December.
Thirty-nine areas in the recent tax overhaul act require immediate guidance, the AICPA told the IRS and Treasury.
FASB proposed a new standard that is intended to help organizations reclassify certain income effects in accumulated other comprehensive income resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
FASB addressed numerous financial reporting implications of P.L. 115-97, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act legislation, thereby making it law.
The tax reform bill that Congress is expected to vote on this week contains numerous changes that will affect businesses large and small.
The tax reform legislation that Congress will consider this week contains many provisions affecting individuals—and many changes from both the House and Senate bills.
The House of Representatives reapproved tax reform legislation on Wednesday, sending the bill to President Donald Trump for his signature.
The Senate voted early today in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R. 1, which the House of Representatives had approved Tuesday.
House and Senate conferees agreed to legislative language of a tax reform bill that is expected to be voted on by Congress next week.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill by a vote of 51–49.
Treasury said it intended to withdraw the Sec. 2704 valuation discount regulations and portions of the Sec. 385 corporate inversion regulations.
The version of the tax reform bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee holds several more changes affecting both individuals and businesses.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill, H.R. 1, by a vote of 227–205.
