Tax Accounting

Foreign tax credit: Changing from cash to accrual basis

Regulations provide regulatory authority for Treasury’s long-held position that an individual taxpayer who elects on a timely filed return to claim the foreign tax credit on the cash basis may not change to the accrual basis on an amended return.

A strategy to raise a business’s interest limitation

This article discusses a strategy to allow more interest to be deducted under the limitation involving the strategic adoption of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, Revenue From Contracts With Customers.

Auto depreciation limits leap with inflation

The Internal Revenue Service issued its annual inflation-adjusted update of depreciation limitations for passenger automobiles, including passenger vans and trucks, placed in service in 2022.

Opportunities for taxpayers with residential rental properties and residential living facilities

During 2021, the IRS issued taxpayer-favorable procedures allowing certain taxpayers that have made the real property trade or business election under Sec. 163(j)(7)(B) with residential rental property to depreciate such property using the shorter 30-yearrecovery period, using ADS, and certain other taxpayers with qualified residential living facilities to be eligible for the real property trade or business election.

Tax Insider Articles

DEDUCTIONS

Business meal deductions after the TCJA

This article discusses the history of the deduction of business meal expenses and the new rules under the TCJA and the regulations and provides a framework for documenting and substantiating the deduction.

TAX RELIEF

Quirks spurred by COVID-19 tax relief

This article discusses some procedural and administrative quirks that have emerged with the new tax legislative, regulatory, and procedural guidance related to COVID-19.