Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has ...

Businesses in the United States have to pay a variety of taxes on the products they sell. The most common example of this is sales tax. But in some cases, companies may also have to pay excise taxes.

Small businesses that sell goods or services that incur excise taxes need to file IRS Form 720 quarterly. If your small business deals in goods and services subject to excise tax — such as air ...

A proposed section in the U.S. House of Representatives version of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) would impose a 3.5 percent excise tax on a remittance of money. This proposal has wide-ranging ...

In 2022, lawmakers introduced a new excise tax on stock repurchases. This one percent tax applies to net share repurchases of large corporations and was projected to raise $73.6 billion over a decade.

More than 230 years ago, one of the first acts of the First Congress in 1789 included a relatively mundane, but important, tax policy allowing a refund on excise taxes. Unfortunately, this has become ...

This interim guidance may be relied upon until regulations addressing the provision are issued. It is expected that the regulations will closely follow the definitions and rules in the notice. The ...

With major fuel tax provisions expiring, the upcoming change to electronic payments, refunds for federal excise taxes, and ...