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Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have sent a letter to the Republican chairman, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, outlining their main principles for tax reform.

In the first Tax Court case that addressed the tax consequences of human egg donations, the court concluded that the compensation received by an egg donor for two donations of eggs was includible in her income.

The small business mentoring organization SCORE has compiled some new statistics demonstrating how much time and money small businesses spend each year on accounting, taxes and payroll administration.

KPMG announced today the members of an advisory council, comprised of proven leaders across business, sports, and the media, who will help guide the seminal KPMG Women’s Leadership Summit. The summit, hosted on-site during the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship this upcoming June, will serve to bring many of today’s most accomplished women together to inspire the next generation of women leaders.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has released its annually updated print edition of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s FASB Accounting Standards Codification, providing the authoritative source of U.S. GAAP for public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations.

Net@Work has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program to provide NetSuite’s cloud ERP solutions to its clients.

Chris Lovin has worked his way up to partner-in-charge of the litigation and valuation services division of Top 100 Firm LBMC. Lovin succeeds David Wood, who is retiring from the role.

A district court in Hawaii has entered a final judgment against the chief executive of a religious-themed video game company, Left Behind Games, for a multimillion-dollar scheme to boost his company’s revenues with part of his stock-trading profits.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous tax preparers, citing preparers as one of the most common “Dirty Dozen” tax scams seen during tax season.

As many as 6 million U.S. taxpayers will have to pay a penalty of as much as 1 percent of income because they went without health insurance in part or all of 2014, the Treasury Department said.