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The AICPA and its members distributed Natural Disasters: The Case for Permanent Tax Relief on Tuesday to members of Congress and their staff. The publication describes the history of disaster relief in the United States and the important role that tax relief plays for individuals and business in recovering from natural disasters.

Improvements are needed to safeguard and protect employers that use payroll providers.

A short history lesson about Black Americans who became CPAs after they were told that they it wasn't possible.

G2 Crowd, the user-generated business software review platform, published its updated Grid report for accounting software, ranking nine products based on 425 reviews.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation in the House that would make the current adoption tax credit fully refundable.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a couple who owed more than $22,000 in unpaid taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, lost their case in Tax Court and then argued that the Tax Court violated the U.S. Constitution.

Yahoo! Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. after comments by the IRS triggered a share slump amid concerns the deal could hit a snag.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs are proposing to revise the standards for continuing professional education for accountants, adding new methods for “blended learning” combining live classes and online study, and “nano-learning” in short 10-minute segments.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year again—Accounting Today’s VAR 100 list, ranking the top value-added resellers of accounting and accounting-related software by revenue.

Any major changes to private equity’s most favored tax break won’t happen until 2017, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said.