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A 94-year-old man who was once a Waffen SS volunteer at Auschwitz was convicted for aiding in the murder of more than 300,000 Jews at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend highway and transit funding through Dec. 18, in contrast with Senate Republicans who want a longer extension.

Americans’ personal financial satisfaction has hit a new post-recession high, according to the Q2 2015 PFSi (Personal Financial Satisfaction Index) released today by the AICPA. An increase in job openings and a rise in home equity values, coupled with continued reductions in loan delinquencies resulted in the most positive financial outlook for the average American since the third quarter of 2007.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Roger Philipp, CEO of Roger CPA Review, describes how accounting students can decide whether accounting is the right career for them, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Sales tax software provider Avalara has partnered with the publisher Wiley to offer a free ebook, “Sales & Use Tax Compliance for Dummies.”

In today’s society there is a great deal of emphasis and focus on all that is wrong with the world, with our country and even our businesses.

CountUp, an on-demand CPA marketplace that provides cloud practice management tools, announced the launch of its online marketplace.

About 6.6 million U.S. taxpayers paid a penalty imposed for the first time this year for not having health insurance, about 10 percent more than the Obama administration had estimated—though a portion didn’t need to.

A new government report urges the Internal Revenue Service to do a better job of educating and notifying taxpayers about provisions of the tax code requiring them to begin taking minimum distributions from their Individual Retirement Arrangements when they reach a certain age, but the IRS responded that it lacks enough money in its budget to do so.