If you sell stocks at a profit, you will owe taxes on those gains. Depending on how long you’ve owned the stock, you may owe at your regular income tax rate or at the capital gains rate, which is ...

Michael C. Gray has been working with stock option taxation since the start of the Silicon Valley tech boom. I spoke with him ...

This article walks through the rules of the capital gains tax and then discusses ways to avoid paying it.

Every year, the IRS publishes its “ Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, highlighting the most common schemes targeting taxpayers.

Form 16, synonymous with a tax deducted at source (TDS) certificate, will be replaced by Form 130 under the new Income Tax Act, 2025. The change in the form is part of an overall renumbering and ...

The Income Tax Department has introduced a major overhaul in form numbering under the Income Tax Rules 2026, replacing several commonly used forms that were earlier prescribed under the Income Tax Act ...

Scammers are taking advantage of confusion surrounding new deductions for tips, overtime and seniors. Here’s how to spot the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The deadline is approaching for millions of Americans who could be entitled to money back from the Internal Revenue ...

Millions of taxpayers may be eligible for a tax refund thanks to erroneous penalties assessed by the IRS. The mistake is traced back to the COVID-19 pandemic, which in the U.S. was a federally ...

Americans are probably happy to put memories of the COVID-19 pandemic behind them, but it may be worthwhile to stir up the past to see if they may qualify for an IRS refund, tax attorneys said. Once a ...

Some taxpayers are facing tax refund delays this season amid the IRS push to phase out paper checks. The IRS has sent more than 830,000 notices to filers about refund delays for paper payment requests ...

With the new Income-tax Act, 2025, set to take effect from April 1, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is expected to roll out only 54 out of the 190 forms required under the new law, the ...