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Intuit announced a new portfolio brand for its professional tax products, Intuit ProConnect, which will include Intuit Tax Online, Lacerte and ProSeries.

The Internal Revenue Service’s expanded use of controls this tax season to identify fraudulent refund claims before accepting them into its processing system has allowed the IRS to identify approximately 35,000 fraudulent e-filed tax returns and 741 paper tax returns as of Feb. 29, 2016, according to a new government report.

Dean Dorton Allen Ford, a full-service accounting and consulting firm headquartered in Lexington, Ky., announced this week that Paula Hanson, director of tax services at the firm, has been honored with the Martha Layne Collins Leadership Award for 2016. The award looks to recognize Kentucky women of achievement who inspire other women of the state through their personal and professional lives.

A senior Treasury Department official in charge of international tax policy is seeing a greater role being played by the Group of 20 finance ministers in setting the agenda for tax laws around the world.

The Senate Finance Committee passed legislation Wednesday to protect taxpayers from identity theft and tax fraud, but without a provision for regulating tax preparers.

The business world was never simple, but it has never been as complex and dynamic as it is today.

Harriet Tubman, the leader of the Underground Railroad that brought slaves to freedom before the Emancipation Proclamation, will be the new face on the $20 bill, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday.

Payroll tax credits, workforce training grants, infrastructure grants, property tax abatements and tax increment financing are just a few of the tools that state and local economic development groups have at their disposal to entice businesses to expand and invest in their communities.

You survived another tax season. After three months at the grind, here’s how your peers are lurching toward May.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed Nevada’s exercise of jurisdiction over the California Franchise Tax Board, but limited the damages that could be awarded to the amount which Nevada law would permit in a similar suit against its own agencies.