Taxes

More than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, returning to the office versus working from home still hasn’t settled down. There’s an ongoing tension around working from home between management’s need for innovation and discipline versus workers’ desires for more flexible arrangements and reduced commuting time. As urbanist and historian Dror Poleg likes to

The IRS has announced more cost-of-living adjustments—these focus on changes affecting health savings accounts (HSAs), high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) The details can be found in Revenue Procedure 2023-23. Here’s a summary. HSA For calendar year 2024, the annual HSA contribution limit for taxpayers with self-only coverage under a high-deductible health

The IRS does not need to notify third parties when requesting a summons for banking records in collection matters. That was the decision of the Supreme Court in Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service. Background The case involved taxpayer Remo Polselli who underpaid his federal taxes for many years, resulting in an outstanding balance of more

You’ve probably heard about the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (LSG, H.R. 2811), which narrowly passed the House of Representatives last month. It features prominently in the ongoing debate over the federal debt ceiling. It’s the GOP’s wish list of spending cuts, totaling $4.8 trillion over the 10-year budget window, according to the Congressional

Earlier this month, a group of Senators sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel about the use of AI—artificial intelligence—technology, including ChatGPT, to engage in scams aimed at taxpayers. Eric Hylton is the National Director of Compliance at alliantgroup, but he previously served as IRS Commissioner of the Small Business/Self Employed Division, as well

The conventional term for someone like Brian Swanson is tax protester, which Wikipedia defines as someone who refuses to pay a tax claiming that the tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. In 1998 Congress forbade IRS from designating people “illegal tax protesters”, but that does not prevent others including the courts from throwing the

Professors Bridget Crawford and Victoria Haneman discuss the estate and gift tax and how it could apply to the gifts received by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes Today International. This

Charitable giving has long been essential to creating a better world by enabling donors to support causes by giving to organizations structured under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)3. Effective charitable planning and planned giving are crucial for maximizing the positive impact of these donations. With advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, tools like ChatGPT

When it comes to education, most financial planning is centered around ways to save and invest for college. This makes sense because in an ideal world, we’d all be able to cover all our education expenses that way and not need to borrow a dime. But in the real world, that’s rarely the case. Fortunately,

The emergency declaration for Covid-19 expired on May 11, 2023—and it comes with some tax consequences. A lot changed during Covid-19, especially for employers. Some shut their doors forever, some closed temporarily, and still others modified their work model so that employees could work remotely. As employers scrambled to keep workers on the payroll, questions