Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
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Commissioner Daniel Werfel said the service plans to begin a pilot early next tax season.
May 16 -
The board is adding two new projects planned for short-term action, along with four new projects aimed at improving its rules to protect investors.
May 16 -
The service is reportedly planning to try out its own direct-file tax software with a limited group of taxpayers by next tax season.
May 15 -
Members of the Senate and House introduced bipartisan legislation to build more housing with the credit.
May 15 -
The Internal Revenue Service has caught up on much of the pile of unprocessed tax returns, but it's still not back to normal.
May 15 -
Commissioner Werfel is promising to fix the method of selecting taxpayers for examinations that seems to lead to more Black taxpayers being audited.
May 15 -
The Finance Committee found that the TCJA enabled some of the biggest to lower their tax bills by shifting profits abroad.
May 12 -
The service is removing employees' first names from correspondence, but their last names and phone numbers will still appear.
May 12 -
The foundation appointed the managing partner of assurance and risk at Baker Tilly, Jere Shawver, as the next chair of the council.
May 12 -
The Internal Revenue Service asked for public input on how to improve access for taxpayers who don't live nearby an appeals office.
May 11 -
Executives from Avalara, KPMG and the law firm Reed Smith discussed the use of tax technology and cross-border transactions during an event in New York.
May 11 -
The Criminal Investigation unit is helping Ukraine's cyber police uncover efforts by Russia to fund the war through cryptocurrency.
May 11 -
Illustrative guidance would help determine whether the extra money companies hand out to execs should be accounted for as share-based payments.
May 11 -
The board is proposing to make the standards it inherited last year more applicable across the globe.
May 11 -
The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and the Kampuchea Institute of CPAs and Auditors signed a memorandum of understanding.
May 10 -
The Virginia Society of CPAs is rethinking the 150-hour requirement for earning a CPA license.
May 10 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board found problems in its initial audit firm inspections in China.
May 10 -
The groups introduced an educational program for accountants in the U.S., the U.K. and other parts of the world.
May 10 -
The firm is investing $1 billion in artificial intelligence technology, geospatial technology, predictive analytics, virtual reality and more.
May 9 -
The Association for Accounting Marketing presented a group of individuals and firms with its annual awards.
May 9
