Michael Cohn

Prager Metis CPAs LLC has merged in Geibelson, Young & Company, expanding the New York-based Top 100 Firm’s presence in California with a firm that caters to the entertainment industry, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Marks Paneth LLP, a Top 100 Firm, has added Buck, Sturmer & Co., effective Jan. 1, 2018.

Increases in audit fees for public companies and nonprofits slowed down in 2016, according to a new report, although private companies saw an uptick in their fee increases during the 2016 audit season.

Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C., has acquired a fellow Iowa-based firm, Gabelmann & Associates, effective Jan. 1, 2018.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to ask tax professionals additional questions before providing them with assistance as part of its efforts to improve security.

BKD CPAs & Advisors has acquired the financial institution practice of Houston-based Harper & Pearson Company, P.C, effective Jan. 9, 2018.

Even though Congress passed the biggest tax overhaul in more than 30 years only a few weeks ago, there’s likely to be more tax-related legislation coming out in the very near future.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs is warning taxpayers in the Garden State that the New Jersey Division of Taxation isn’t letting them deduct the 2018 property taxes they prepaid last year on their 2017 state return after passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, though the move could still be helpful in terms of federal taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service released updated tax withholding tables for 2018 Thursday to reflect changes for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, amid warnings that the tables may not be accurate and will need further refinements.

Ceterus has debuted Ceterus Tax, a managed tax service for small businesses.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a one-page Q&A document Thursday from its staff letting private companies and nonprofits apply recent staff guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission on the tax accounting implications of the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and plans future Q&A documents, along with an accounting standards update.

Audit committees at public companies will have plenty on their agendas this year, according to a pair of new reports from KPMG, including new accounting standards, the new tax law, cyber security and more.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson outlined concerns about how the Internal Revenue Service will be able to implement the new tax law after a series of budget cuts, in her new report to Congress.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law last month limits the tax deductions that accountants, lawyers and some other types of professionals can claim, reflecting some of the rules for Qualified Small Business Stock.

Crowe Horwath LLP plans to merge in TRU8 Solutions, an Atlanta-based risk consulting firm, effective Jan. 31, 2018.

Eide Bailly LLP plans to add France, Basterrechea, Wagner & Bunn, a CPA firm based in Gooding, Idaho, effective May 14, 2018.

RPR Partners LLP, a tax advisory firm in San Diego, has joined Ernst & Young LLP, EY said Tuesday.

Herbein + Company Inc. has merged in Gable Peritz Mishkin, a firm that has operated in the Philadelphia area for almost 50 years.

Ranking Dems are worried the Internal Revenue Service might succumb to political pressure to make it appear that tax cuts are larger than they really are.

Eide Bailly LLP, a Top 100 accounting firm, has added Decipher Forensics, a digital forensics and data recovery firm based in American Fork, Utah.