Nonresident individuals owned $606.8 billion of assets in Switzerland's financial sector at the end of 2006, enabling them to easily avoid taxes on those assets in their home countries, Tax Notes magazine reports today.

States are 22 percent less efficient than the federal government in collecting corporate taxes, translating into a total $14.5 billion shortfall in 2006 alone, State Tax Notes has found.

Tax Analysts is helping Americans learn whether the Internal Revenue Service owes them money.

Edward Lazear, who chairs President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, is trying to patent a way for corporations to minimize their tax bills, Tax Notes Today reports this morning.

Tax Analysts will hold a discussion on taxing hedge funds, private equity funds, and their managers on Thursday, September 20, from 10 a.m. to noon, in the Columbia A room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Lee Sheppard's influential articles over the last two decades "have become a must-read for tax practitioners," the New York Times wrote in its recent profile of Sheppard.

A federal appellate court ruled for Tax Analysts today in a case involving the disclosure of information by the Internal Revenue Service, forcing the IRS to release all written legal advice that its Office of Chief Counsel prepares for IRS field personnel.

Lee Sheppard, the nation's most respected tax commentator, Tax Analysts' contributing editor, and an expert on taxation of financial products and institutions, is available for media interviews on the controversy about taxing hedge funds, private equity funds, and their individual managers.

Blanket coverage of a development with huge implications for taxpayers and the government — that tax advisors are increasingly obtaining federal patents for strategies to cut their clients’ taxes.

Are you curious what President Bush and Vice President Cheney paid in taxes in 2006, their effective tax rates, and their write-offs?

Tax Analysts, along with the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is sponsoring a tax policy discussion among top U.S. and European officials on Monday, March 5, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, 1150 22nd St., NW, Washington DC.

Tax Analysts has launched an enhanced Federal Research Library, adding tens of thousands of documents and making comprehensive research much easier.

Fascinating and practical advice for the new 110th Congress from current and former White House officials, former IRS commissioners, academics, writers, other tax experts.