IRS Uncertain Positions Documents Answer Some Questions, Leave Others, Practitioners Say

The draft schedule and instructions that taxpayers would use to report uncertain tax positions, unveiled by the Internal Revenue Service April 19, are administratively helpful and well…

IRS Unveils Draft Schedule, Instructions for Reporting Uncertain Tax Positions

The Internal Revenue Service April 19 unveiled the eagerly awaited draft schedule and instructions that taxpayers would use to report their uncertain tax positions under…

ANALYSIS: Who Needs ‘Customers’? The Real Import (or Export) of IRS Announcement 2010-9 on ‘Uncertain Tax Positions’

If anything explodes the fiction that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the taxpayer—particularly the corporate taxpayer—are in a constructive partnership…

IRS Considering Valuation Issues with Uncertain Tax Position Proposal, Official Says

The Internal Revenue Service is thinking about issues surrounding the valuation of the maximum amount of potential federal tax liability attributable to each…

IRS Says Uncertain Tax Positions Proposal Not for 2009 Returns, Seeks More Comments

The Internal Revenue Service said March 5 it is extending the time for submission of comments on its recent proposal for mandatory reporting of uncertain tax…

Uncertain Tax Positions Proposal Intended to Fine-Tune Audit Process, IRS Chief Counsel Stresses

Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel William Wilkins March 2 said as the government moves forward with its proposal to require taxpayers to…

Uncertain Tax Position Reporting Plan Seen Changing Disclosure Landscape

The Internal Revenue Service’s proposal to require taxpayers to report all their uncertain tax positions and associated dollar amounts…

IRS to Propose Reporting of Uncertain Tax Positions with Returns, Commissioner Says

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman Jan. 26 unveiled a proposal for a tax schedule that would require large business taxpayers…