If you are attending college, or have a college student in your household, the following is a brief summary of the various education credits and deductions that may be taken on your tax return:

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Congress finally passed” The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015”. This was the long anticipated bill that will finally extend more than 50 tax provisions that have left tax payers in doubt over the last several years.

For years, it has always been a struggle to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.

The IRS has announced additional annual inflation adjustments for more than 50 tax provisions for 2016, including the tax rate schedules and other tax changes.

Some retirement policy reform plans have called for capping the amount that could be contributed pretax to retirement accounts. A Republican plan put forward in 2014, for example, would have disallowed contributions to traditional IRAs and removed income limits on Roth IRA contributions.