New York, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., have crafted regulations to govern taxes, zoning and length of stay in short-term rentals, and Airbnb says it's glad to help in that process here.
Efforts to go after tax evaders range from investing in technology and hiring tax officers to working with the O.E.C.D. to reach agreements governing tax havens.
The proposed regulations governing tax lawyers, accountants and others who practice before the I.R.S. will be published today in the Federal Register.
Senator Torricelli has already declared that he is interested in a seat on the Finance Committee, which governs tax issues and revenue sharing.
An accountant known for his published critiques of tax law enforcement strategy, Kip Dellinger of Gaytan Kallman & Company in Los Angeles, said that the I.R.S. should enforce Circular 230, which governs tax professionals who represent clients before the I.R.S.
Federal laws governing tax-shelter registration apply only to income taxes, not to gift and estate taxes.
That upsets Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican responsible for legislation that year that tightened rules governing taxes on Americans in the Virgin Islands.
They should know the optimum time to withdraw money from I.R.A.'s and 401 k)'s, now that the Internal Revenue Service has simplified the rules governing tax-deferred retirement accounts.
Once Republicans control both chambers, they can use the resolution to instruct key committees to rewrite the laws governing taxes and entitlements such as Obamacare and Medicare (health care for the elderly) through a process called reconciliation.
Sheila Krumholz, the Center's executive director, told me that despite the denials coming from conservative non-profits her organization has found increasing evidence of practices designed to evade I.R.S. rules governing tax-exempt status and donor disclosure.
The outcome of Mr. Grassley's investigation was disappointing to those who had thought that it might lead to some changes in the rules governing tax-exempt religious groups.
