Every year as the tax deadline approaches, people want to know the last-minute things they can do to lower their bill. The honest answer is there’s rarely anything. The 2024 tax year ended Dec. 31, ...

The 2025 filing season has been completed quietly, despite trepidation regarding the Internal Revenue Service's ability to function effectively in the face of cuts in funding and staff. Processing ...

A recent case, Senty v. United States, provides several important lessons for tax return preparers . Mr. Senty was involved ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes contributing editor and historian Joseph J. Thorndike discusses President Trump’s referral to “the forgotten man” and how the phrase connects to a ...

Governors and legislators have enacted income tax cuts in 25 states since 2020. Among that group of tax cutting states, Arkansas recently became the first to enact two income tax rate cuts in the same ...

Big rigged; fearsome foursome; NYPD blue; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Union City, Georgia: Truck driver Dantavious Jackson, 39, who operated a ghost tax prep business, has pleaded guilty ...

On June 23, 2025, DrBicuspid published an article about a dentist who used various trusts and different contacts to fund these trusts. The purpose of “hiding” income and not paying taxes on that ...

There are some hard truths about human behavior lurking in the 1040 Every year as the tax deadline approaches, people want to know the last-minute things they can do to lower their bill. The honest ...