Current Federal Tax Developments

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2017-05-14 Change is in the Air

Current Federal Tax Developments for the week of May 14, 2018: Change in the Air. Current Federal Tax Developments is brought to you by the state CPA societies and Kaplan Professional Education.

This week we look at the following items:

  • Taxpayer had to include son’s savings account in determination of solvency
  • 2019 HRA amounts announced by the IRS
  • IRS changes Section 382 recognized built-in gain/loss safe harbors due to changes made by TCJA
  • Revenue procedure issued to deal with requests to change accounting methods due to ASC 606 adoption for financial statements
  • General automatic method change revenue procedure annual update published by IRS
  • Taxpayer found to have no asset to sell and, due to that, income was ordinary and not capital in nature

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2018-05-14 Change is in the Air Ed Zollars, CPA

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2018-05-14 Current Federal Tax Developments