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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The National Treasury Employees Union is worried about the impact of proposed budget cuts on the agency’s ability to deal with taxpayers.
April 11 -
The agency managed to open filing season on time despite the recent government shutdown and saw a big opening day.
April 10 -
Canopy has introduced a mobile app for managing a tax practice that works with both Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
April 10 -
Approximately 40 percent of private companies are behind schedule on the new leases standard or haven’t started getting ready yet.
April 10 -
Lawmakers are complaining about the agency’s disproportionate number of audits of low-income taxpayers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit.
April 9 -
The House passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to overhaul some key aspects of the way the Internal Revenue Service operates, including the appeals process.
April 9 -
A new analysis released Tuesday shows how much tax professionals are earning on their annual salaries in the U.S. and in some of the biggest cities in the country.
April 9 -
As Tax Day approaches, accountants are finally getting to the end of a season made particularly grueling by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
April 8 -
The number of taxpayers who reported they were victims of identity theft fell 71 percent between 2015 and 2018, thanks to coordination between the IRS and its Security Summit partners.
April 8 -
The former Citigroup executive Julie Bell Lindsay is succeeding Cindy Fornelli, who is retiring.
April 8 -
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation to make permanent the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, a tax break that encourages companies to hire veterans, people with disabilities and other groups who face barriers to employment, before it expires at the end of the year.
April 5 -
Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and House have teamed up to introduce bipartisan legislation to assist tax-exempt cooperative organizations.
April 5 -
The Institute of Internal Auditors wants organizations to pay more attention to fraud control and decide on the role that internal audit will play.
April 5 -
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are asking the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on the people involved in the recent college admissions scandal.
April 4 -
The new tax law and the 35-day shutdown had an impact on the agency, but it still managed to process over 59 million returns by mid-season.
April 4 -
CFGI acquires Pine Hill Group; Sax Wealth Advisors adds Stuart B. Hermann, CFP, CPA; Mauldin & Jenkins acquires Jon Campbell & Associates; and Cresa acquires Portfolio Solutions Group.
April 4 -
Top 100 Firm CohnReznick said Thursday that its former chairman and CEO, Ken Baggett, has died.
April 4 -
David Knoch, the president of 1st Global, is getting ready for the close of the acquisition of his financial advisory firm by Blucora, the parent company of HD Vest, and is making plans for aligning with a former rival.
April 4 -
The Massachusetts Democrat submitted a formal request to the IRS commissioner asking for copies of Trump’s returns going back to 2013.
April 3 -
House Democrats are looking to find a compromise solution to the Republican tax law’s cap on the amount of state and local levies that can be written off a federal return, a limit they say has caused their constituents to lose out on billions of dollars of deductions.
April 3
