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 House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee is calling on the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department to return funds wrongly seized from taxpayers during civil asset forfeitures.
By Michael CohnMarch 23 -
A Miami-based startup has launched Taxfyle, an iPhone app aimed at Millennials that allows them to connect with a network of 300 CPAs who can help them prepare and file their taxes.
By Michael CohnMarch 23 -
TaxAct has introduced online Form 990 software that allows tax-exempt organizations to file their information returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
By Michael CohnMarch 23 -
The Internal Revenue Service is offering up to $10,000 to the winner of a new competition to make its online tax information more understandable to taxpayers.
By Michael CohnMarch 23 -
Close to half of U.S. investors assess their broader wealth and financial situation during tax season, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnMarch 23 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has named the members who will serve on a Transition Resource Group to help with implementation of its upcoming credit losses standard.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
The odds of being criminally prosecuted by the Internal Revenue Service have fallen as a result of budget cuts at the hands of Congress, decreasing from 13.3 per million population in fiscal year 2013 to 9.2 per million in FY 2015, according to new research.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
Relatively few employers are claiming the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new government report.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
The National Retail Federation is urging Congress to reject any form of consumption tax as it considers a variety of tax reform proposals in a hearing Tuesday.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
Marc Fleischman has been appointed CEO of BeachFleischman, succeeding Bruce Beach, who has led the firm as CEO since 1990.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
RSM US LLP, the firm formerly known as McGladrey, has begun compiling an index of middle-market business performance, in collaboration with Moodys Analytics.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
More than half of companies in India are not yet ready for new Indian Accounting Standards, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released the Top 10 Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2015 to highlights its efforts to combat tax refund fraud and identity theft.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service is doing a better job of controlling its spending on conferences after the IRS faced ridicule three years ago for spending on an embarrassing series of training videos for conferences.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
A federal court has barred the owner of a dozen Liberty Tax Service franchises in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas after discovering rampant tax fraud, while a Maryland grand jury has indicted the owner and several tax preparers at some Liberty Tax franchises in Baltimore.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service has raised interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2016, the first change to interest rates since the fourth calendar quarter of 2010 when the federal short-term rate decreased from 1 percent to 0 percent.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The number of presidential candidates has been steadily winnowing down in recent weeks as they suffer defeats in the primaries and caucuses, and so too their tax plans have been falling by the wayside.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
Syracuse Universitys Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has updated its Taxpayer Returns online tool with data through filing year 2014.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
The Internal Revenue Service has updated its venerable tax guide for this tax season.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has amended the converged revenue recognition standard it developed with the International Accounting Standards Board to add more guidance about principal versus agent considerations.
By Michael CohnMarch 18