This episode highlights noteworthy provisions in last year’s Taxpayer First Act. Of the law’s nearly 50 provisions, the three mandates that require the IRS’s immediate attention are customer service, training, and organizational restructuring.

Scott Schapiro, of the KPMG's Employment Tax practice, highlights the challenges for multistate employers and their third-party providers to proactively manage the compliance issues associated with domestic, state-to-state, and short-term travel of their globally mobile workforce.

Greg Armstrong of the KPMG's Washington National Tax practice, discusses the Ninth Circuit's Baldwin v. United States ruling that the taxpayers could not rely on the common-law mailbox rule to argue their refund claim was timely.

Shirley Sicilian, KPMG's National Director for State and Local Tax Controversy, considers how the Wayfair decision's nexus analysis may have implications for corporate income tax.

Her Majesty's Treasury proposes to place a direct 2 percent tax on revenues derived from British users' creation of value for digital services businesses.

Partnerships filing 2018 taxable year returns should be aware of the BBA rules and familiarize themselves with the requirement to designate a partnership representative.

Any taxpayer who has or intends to take a deduction for a conservation easement needs to be aware that this deduction has faced ever increasing scrutiny from the IRS.