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The Internal Revenue Service is planning a massive public auction in Overland Park, Kansas, on Thursday of a mind-blowing set of rock & roll memorabilia, including autographed records from Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, a 10-piece drum set from Anthrax, an autographed guitar from Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Nirvana items, a guitar from Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue, and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s shoes.

A former New York tax preparer was sentenced to nine years in prison for filing thousands of fraudulent tax returns using the stolen identities of minors.

Christine Ann Botosan, an accounting professor at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and a former president of the American Accounting Association, has been appointed as the newest member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

O’Connor Davies Administration, a subsidiary of New York-based accounting and consulting firm O’Connor Davies LLP, has merged with VBK+CO, a global administration firm headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

According to a new survey published by accounting staffing agency Accountemps, nearly 98 percent of polled HR managers said that they would be willing to welcome back a returning employee who left on good terms. However, 52 percent of surveyed professionals said that it'd be unlikely they would apply for a job with a former employer.

Taxpayers are not doing enough to protect themselves from identity theft-related tax fraud and a majority of them don’t expect it to happen to them, according to a new survey.

Cybercrime is becoming too pervasive for accountants to ignore, according to a new report from the Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

The Treasury Department has issued a newly revised U.S. Model Income Tax Convention to provide the baseline text it will use when negotiating tax treaties with other countries. It was last updated in 2006.

The AICPA will be offering a webinar on cybersecurity governance and business risks this Friday, aimed to give professionals a better understanding of the various governance challenges and business risks cybersecurity poses for executives, board members and their advisors.

Chief audit executives are not so confident about the accuracy of the data their companies rely on to make decisions.