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Before you sign up for another streaming content or food delivery service, consider this: Debt-to-income (DTI) ratios have shifted dramatically in recent years, with the average American household earning…

More employers will be able to give workers cash in lieu of health insurance because of a rule change that takes effect at the start of 2020. As of Jan 1, any employer can give employees pretax compensation…

Congress designated Qualified Opportunity Funds in 2017 with a win-win goal: To spur growth in 8,700 distressed communities, known as Qualified Opportunity Zones, via investment vehicles offering attractive…

Taxpayers should be on the lookout for new variations of tax-related scams. In the latest twist on a scam related to Social Security numbers, scammers claim to be able to suspend or cancel the victim’s…

As part of a wider effort to assist taxpayers and to enforce the tax laws in a rapidly changing area, the Internal Revenue Service issued two new pieces of guidance for taxpayers who engage in transactions…

If you’re noticing an uptick in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity, you’re not alone: 79% of respondents in Deloitte’s annual survey anticipated an increase in M&A transactions in 2019 – up from…

The Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2019-38 that has a safe harbor allowing certain interests in rental real estate, including interests in mixed-use property, to be treated as a trade…

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations (PDF) and additional proposed regulations (PDF) under section 168(k) of the Internal Revenue Code on the new 100% additional…

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently reinstated the requirement to collect two years of pay data for 2017 and 2018 and that covered employers would be required to file this information…

The Internal Revenue Service is automatically waiving the estimated tax penalty for the more than 400,000 eligible taxpayers who already filed their 2018 federal income tax returns but did not claim the…