Your dental surgery. Your colonoscopy. Your income taxes. There's always a massive bout of procrastination across the U.S. in the weeks leading up to Tax Day, which is April 18 this year.       Home  |  Subscribe       Tax Practice   Mar 29, 2016       Top Stories   Filed Your Taxes? Good. (Or Is It?) by SUZANNE WOOLLEY   Your dental surgery. Your colonoscopy. Your income taxes. There's always a massive bout of procrastination across the U.S. in the weeks leading up to Tax Day, which is April 18 this year. READ MORE »   Permanent Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion Encourages Funding by ROGER RUSSELL   While it has been around in a variety of forms since 1993, the exclusion for Qualified Small Business Stock Gains under section 1202 of the Tax Code didn’t really come into its own as a tax benefit until the exclusion rate increased to 100 percent in 2010. READ MORE »       IRS Delays Estate Basis Reporting Due Date by MICHAEL COHN   The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice delaying the estate basis reporting due date from March 31 until June 30, 2016. READ MORE »     SPONSOR CONTENT HOW DOES YOUR FIRM BENCHMARK AGAINST YOUR PEERS?   Accountants everywhere are faced with the need to adopt technology to better serve clients and handle a growing volume of work. How do you stack up against your peers in adopting technology solutions to improve your processes and services? Are you a Tech Mogul, Tech Rock Star, Tech Scientist or Tech Historian? Take this 60-second quiz and discover your tech persona! START YOUR QUIZ. »     Young, Broke, and Scared of the IRS: The Millennial Tax Trap by POLLY MOSENDZ   NOTICE OF INTENT TO LEVY: It wasn't a very nice way to begin a letter, but then, it was from the Internal Revenue Service, and it got Greg's attention. READ MORE »   Nanny Taxes and Home Employment   Kerri Swope of Care.com HomePay discusses Nanny Taxes and why families should be concerned about them. READ MORE »   IRS Improves Phone Call Responsiveness by MICHAEL COHN   The Internal Revenue Service has been improving its timeliness in responding to taxpayer calls thanks to some extra money from Congress this year. READ MORE »       Tax Fraud Blotter: Guilty, with a Bullet by JEFF STIMPSON   A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases. READ MORE »   In the Blogs: Dark Linings by JEFF STIMPSON   Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week. READ MORE »   Back to Normal? by ROGER RUSSELL   Closing out a season marked by less drama, and the usual hurdles READ MORE »   When Tax Clients Divorce by ROGER RUSSELL   Managing your position in the middle of warring spouses READ MORE »   IRS Revises Accounting Method Change Form by MICHAEL COHN   The Internal Revenue Service has revised Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method, and its instructions, for the first time since 2009. READ MORE »   IRS Struggles with Overlapping Tax Tipster Programs by MICHAEL COHN   The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble coordinating various overlapping programs that deal with referrals on tax evasion, in part because the referrals have to be submitted on paper forms, manually screened and then mailed to various departments within the IRS. READ MORE »           White Papers   Addressing the Indirect Tax Challenges Facing Communication Providers   Addressing the Indirect Tax Challenges Facing Communications Providers, an Aberdeen Group white paper brought to you by Avalara, outlines key obstacles communications service providers face in tax management. READ MORE »   Seizing the Opportunity: How Accountants Can Move Beyond the Challenges to Offer Financial Planning   Accountants are often their clients' most trusted advisors, and they possess highly specialized financial skills. READ MORE »   MORE IN WHITE PAPERS »       Web Seminars   Helping business clients thrive with fiscal analytics   Businesses generate financial statements, but have difficulty extracting actionable data from those reports. READ MORE »   Building client confidence by understanding workers’ compensation   Workers' compensation can be an essential part of doing business. READ MORE »   MORE IN WEB SEMINARS »       Contact Us   Michael Cohn Editor-in-Chief, AccountingToday.com [email protected] Phone: 212.803.8859   Jack Lynch Publisher, Accounting Today, Accounting Technology & Tax Pro Today [email protected] Phone: 212.803.8803             FOLLOW US:     @AccountingToday     Facebook       For more information about reprints and licensing content from Accounting Today, please visit www.SourceMediaReprints.com or contact PARS International Corp. (212) 221-9595.   You are currently subscribed to Tax Practice as: [email protected]. You are receiving this email as part of SourceMedia. Please do not reply to this message. To learn more about SourceMedia