Michael Cohn

Wipfli LLP, a Top 20 Firm based in Milwaukee, has added Tidestone Solutions, a technology consulting firm in Portland, Maine, effective April 16.

Two Senate Democrats are criticizing a little-known provision of the CARES Act stimulus package that would provide a tax break mostly to wealthy taxpayers, suspending excess business losses for prior tax years.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board released its 2020-2023 strategy and 2020-2021 work plan, while acknowledging that the COVID-19 pandemic could throw those plans out of whack.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently voted to exempt many smaller public companies from the Sarbanes-Oxley requirement for auditor attestations of their internal controls over financial reporting, but many companies have been able to bypass those audits anyway.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver economic impact payments automatically to veterans and their beneficiaries, without filling out extra forms, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The typical case of fraud costs $8,300 per month, and the median duration of each fraud case was 14 months.

People who receive Supplemental Security Income will automatically get economic impact payments from the federal government in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Small businesses are dealing with frustrating delays and changing guidance in applying for and receiving help from the Small Business Administration in its new Paycheck Protection Program.

The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging taxpayers to file their taxes electronically during the three-month extension period for this year’s tax season.

The Internal Revenue Service posted a set of questions and answers Monday to help companies claim net operating losses and tax credits for prior years so they can get faster tax refunds in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

More than one-fourth of CFOs anticipate layoffs at their organizations, a significant increase from two weeks ago, according to a new survey.

The Treasury Department has created a web-based portal through which state, local and tribal governments will be able to access payments to help offset the costs of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced the Internal Revenue Service to dramatically scale back operations late in tax-filing season, according to a new report.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board staff released a question-and-answer document to respond to questions about the lease accounting guidance for lease concessions in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service introduced an online tool on its website to help people who don’t normally file their taxes receive their stimulus payments sooner in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are extending a number of tax deadlines for individuals, trusts, estates, corporations and others due to the impact of the novel coronavirus.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to propose that private companies and nonprofits get an extra year to implement the lease accounting standard while also giving private franchisor companies an extra year for revenue recognition.

The American Institute of CPAs has posted a set of frequently asked questions and answers aimed at helping CPAs and their clients with tax filing and tax relief in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, while pointing out the various shortcomings in the federal government’s response.

Cherry Bekaert, a Top 25 Firm based in Richmond, Virginia, has acquired Tax Advantage Group, a consulting firm in Greenville, South Carolina that specializes in providing services related to the New Markets Tax Credit to clients across the U.S.

The Internal Revenue Service is including a question at the top of Schedule 1 of the Form 1040 this year asking taxpayers whether they received, sold, sent, exchanged or acquired a financial interest in virtual currency in 2019, but most taxpayers won’t have any record from a Form 1099 about their cryptocurrency transactions.