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The American Institute of CPAs sent a comment letter Friday to the Internal Revenue Service about two interpretive issues.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice proposing some requirements for employee consents that can be used to support a claim for refund of employment taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new revenue procedure that aims to make it easier for small business owners to comply with the final tangible property repair regulations.

Every firm has markets in which they focus with products and services. These entities (a firm, its markets, products and services) all begin in an Emerging quadrant, and then as they become a more stabilized entity, they move into a Growth quadrant, and over a period of growth they then move to the Maturing quadrant, and finally they move to the Aging quadrant, where they pass away.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Conflict Minerals Task Force has developed two new Q&A documents on conflict mineral disclosures mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Bill.com announced it closed a $50 million financing round led by Silicon Valley Bank, joining existing investors in helping the digital business payment provider raise a total of $100 million.

The American Bar Association Section of Taxation has created a Tax Assistance Public Service endowment fund that will provide stable, long-term funding for the ABA’s tax-related public service programs for underserved taxpayers, including low-income people, military personnel and disaster victims.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to revive a lapsed tax break for small businesses that encourages them to purchase equipment.

The House of Representatives voted to revive three U.S. tax breaks that encourage charitable giving in a bipartisan challenge to President Barack Obama’s threat to veto the measure.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted to expand college savings tax incentives that President Barack Obama proposed limiting earlier this year.