Taxes

Tony Townley is one of the cofounders of Zaxby’s a chain of fast casual restaurants. There are more than 900 locations in 17 states. Goldman Sachs acquired a major stake to help accelerate growth in 2020. Zaxby’s has concentrated on selling chicken fingers and wings with special sauces in the Southeast. This story is about

Total charitable giving to support the work of nonprofits dropped 10.5% last year, compared to 2021 (when adjusted for inflation), according to a report from Giving USA. Giving by individuals alone fell by 13.4%. There may be a variety of explanations for the drop, but two of the biggest? The economy and the Tax Cuts

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,” John Maynard Keynes famously observed. Apparently, Charles G. Moore and Kathleen F. Moore are in thrall to a certain Columbia University economist from the early 20th century. Edwin R.A. Seligman is a big player

The Senate has passed a stop-gap funding bill to avert a government shutdown before the deadline. The bill is identical to the one that was recently passed in the House. It extends funding for government services at current spending levels, with no spending cuts, including those targeted to the IRS. The bill does not include

Taxpayers who participate in international transactions potentially subject themselves to a panoply of international information return filing obligations. Take this simple example. John, a U.S. citizen, establishes and funds a foreign grantor trust. After creating the trust, John also travels to the foreign jurisdiction and sets up a foreign bank account in the foreign trust’s

A Pennsylvania couple has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States related to their efforts to evade paying employment taxes. According to court documents and statements made in court, Theodore Shearba and Jennifer Cemini (who are not married) owned and operated a landscaping and excavation business in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania. Perkiomenville is located just

As we approach year’s end, now may be the time to see if tax-loss harvesting could help you lower your 2023 taxes. If you have turned on the TV or followed the news, you likely know that pretty much all parts of the stock market were down in 2022. For its part, 2023 has also

Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) decision to drop his bid for the Republican presidential nomination means voters have lost their best opportunity to hear a serious tax policy debate among his party’s White House hopefuls. Unlike his rivals, Scott campaigned on a thoughtful, relatively detailed agenda that married taxes with his conservative social and economic views.

That collective sigh you just heard? Despite weeks of posturing, the House passed legislation to keep the federal government’s lights on. The bill now moves to the Senate, days ahead of the deadline. If it feels like deja vu all over again, you’re not wrong. Earlier this year, there were worries that the government would

Sanessa Griffiths of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP discusses the lack of diversity in the tax bar and recommends ways to fix it. 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 week: tax

A Texas man, Lamar “Cory” Thompson, formerly of Chicago, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mail fraud related to a scheme to fraudulently obtain tax refunds from the IRS. Thompson had the help of others in his scheme—only they didn’t all know it. According to court documents, from approximately June 2010 through

First, the tax authorities targeted soda, plastics, and hazardous chemicals with excise taxes. Now they’re coming for fast-fashion companies like Shein and Temu. Imposing special taxes on mass-produced $16 party dresses? That seems like a lot of effort for some low-hanging fashion fruit. But the fruit may not be as poor quality as it appears

The IRS received a significant increase in operating funds after Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in mid-2022. More recently, on September 8, 2023, the IRS announced that it would use at least some of those funds to focus on compliance initiatives associated with high-income and high-wealth taxpayers. Although the announcement covers numerous compliance

The IRS has announced the annual inflation adjustments for the year 2024, including tax rate schedules, tax tables and cost-of-living adjustments. These are the official numbers for the tax year 2024—that begins Jan. 1, 2024. They are not the numbers that you’ll use to prepare your 2023 tax returns in 2024 (you’ll find those official

The IRS has announced the annual inflation adjustments for the year 2024. That includes not only tax rate schedules, tax tables and cost-of-living adjustments for returns (you can find those here)—but penalties for late returns and missed forms. Here’s a look at what you need to know. Failure To File A Tax Return For returns

Since the birth of the U.S. tax system more than a century ago, taxpayers have made purposeful attempts to avoid paying taxes that they lawfully owe. In a standard case, a taxpayer may seek to reduce his or her tax liabilities through omitting income or inflating deductions, or both. Taxpayers who engage in these activities

Even legislators with a keen interest in protecting the U.S. corporate tax base from profit shifting should probably resist the urge to jump into the middle of Microsoft’s high-profile transfer pricing dispute with the IRS. Microsoft’s recent disclosure that the IRS believes the company paid $28.9 billion less in corporate income taxes than it owed

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has notified clients that the company will turn over user information to the IRS. The announcement follows a lengthy legal battle that began in 2021 when Kraken received a John Doe summons from the IRS. A John Doe summons is an order that does not explicitly identify the person but instead identifies

Introduction Most compensation earned by taxpayers is subject to employment taxes. When it comes to sole proprietors, independent contractors, and partners, employment taxes include those imposed by the Self-Employment Contributions Act (“SECA”). Rates in recent years have reached 15.3 percent of an individual’s “net earnings from self-employment,” a category which generally covers his or her

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who appears to be winning increasing support among Republicans in the race for her party’s 2024 presidential nomination, is running on a fairly standard GOP tax and budget platform. But it includes important twists and some inconsistencies with her record as governor. She backs big tax cuts for individuals