Michael Cohn

CBIZ said it would close its current office in Miami, with a small number of the staff members relocating to CBIZ's office in Boca Raton, Fla. and the remainder joining a separate firm, Cherry Bekaert LLP, in its Miami office.

The Internal Revenue Service was unable to deploy an $8.6 million case management system for matching tax returns with information returns from banks and brokerage firms reporting data such as credit card transactions and the cost basis of trades, according to a new government report.

The California Society of CPAs plans to move its headquarters from San Mateo to Burlingame.

Rosen Seymour Shapps Martin & Company LLP has been undergoing major changes as 13 of RSSM’s 24 partners have left in recent months to join other major firms in New York, Citrin Cooperman and WeiserMazars, including two former managing partners.

A group of Russian lawmakers has introduced legislation that would prohibit foreign accounting firms from auditing Russian companies in which the government owns more than a 50 percent interest.

The Internal Revenue Service may have allowed approximately $167.7 million in questionable fuel tax credit claims between 2011 and 2013, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of Sept. 30, 2014, because of a continuing material weakness in internal control over unpaid tax assessments, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Accounting organization leaders are meeting at the World Congress of Accountants in Rome this week to discuss issues such as the future of accounting, problems with government accounting and outsourced workforces, and the state of accounting research.

Small businesses overwhelmingly support extension of the expired tax breaks known as tax extenders during Congress’s “lame duck” session, according to a new survey by the National Small Business Association.

A tax preparer in the Bronx, N.Y. has pleaded guilty to operating a $4.8 million Ponzi scheme and faces up to 11 years in prison.

The global tax services firm Ryan has signed an agreement to acquire another large tax services firm, WTP Advisors.

An Internal Revenue Service employee was arrested last week after knocking a woman unconscious at a Pittsburgh Steelers game and then trying to bribe several police officers to cover up the incident.

A former Internal Revenue Service agent in Houston who was fired for carrying a ritual dagger as an article of her Sikh religious faith has won a settlement with the federal government allowing her to bring it into federal buildings.

Wolters Kluwer CCH has released a new tax briefing document analyzing the federal tax legislation outlook along with strategies that taxpayers and businesses should consider for reducing their income taxes.

Two top officials with the International Accounting Standards Board and its parent organization, the IFRS Foundation, gave speeches this week in which they expressed the hope that the Securities and Exchange Commission will ultimately sanction the use of International Financial Reporting Standards by U.S. companies.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance clarifying the impact that a 2014 rollover of an individual retirement arrangement has on the one-per-year limit imposed by the Tax Code on tax-free rollovers between IRAs.

Private sector employment increased by 230,000 jobs from September to October, according to payroll giant ADP.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to increase the number of business tax returns and information returns that are filed electronically, recommends a new government report.

Sageworks has struck a marketing partnership with the American Institute of CPAs, which will offer members of the AICPA’s Forensic & Valuation Services Section a discount on Sageworks Valuation Solution.

Ernst & Young has published the latest annual edition of its tax guide, the EY Tax Guide 2015.