In less than 100 days, the estate tax goes on hiatus for a year.

Lobbyists retained by industries as diverse as homebuilding and restaurants are sharing at least one agenda item this fall as Congress readies its next tax title — how to push for a broader carryback loss tax provision.

As a teacher, writer, and citizen, I'm always looking for written works that encourage people to think about good tax policy.

Tax Analysts' Sam Young selects and profiles the top 10 tax lobbyists in Washington and provides insights on how they operate and what makes their practices successful.

Tax Analysts is proud to announce Toward Tax Reform: Recommendations for President Obama’s Task Force. 

As if Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner didn't have enough on his plate, there's one underappreciated problem his department now must address. This latest headache can be summarized in three words: U.S. bank secrecy.

The U.S. and Swiss governments have signed an agreement to settle the UBS John Doe summons enforcement case in an arrangement that is expected to produce the identities of the holders of 4,450 UBS accounts, in addition to the 250 accounts turned over when UBS made a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department.

George White discusses the potential repeal of the last-in, first-out method of accounting as the United States moves closer to adopting international financial reporting standards.

Lawmakers and courts alike have proclaimed that unclaimed property laws are primarily designed to protect the owners of property.

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Just days after struggling insurance giant American International Group Inc. sued the government for more than $306 million over a tax dispute, the Treasury Department announced that it would make another $30 billion available to AIG.

The recent tax troubles of Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer (not to mention Charlie Rangel) raise a serious question: Do we have a compliance crisis in the capital?

Oh, do we have problems. And one of the biggest is that when it comes to tax policy, our new president is acting with all the boldness of Caspar Milquetoast.

Now that we as a nation have borrowed and consumed our way into an economic crisis, perhaps it is time to produce and sell our way out of it.

President-elect Barack Obama calls his transition Web site http://change.gov a symbol of his promise to bring real change to Washington.

No civilization has ever paid all of its debts.