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Goldstein Schechter Koch has merged with De Meo, Young, McGrath & Co. The deal closed on Jan. 1, 2014.

The Financial Accounting Foundation said Tuesday that it will contribute up to $3 million to the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation to help complete some of their joint accounting standards convergence projects.

The Internal Revenue Service has posted a final version of the form for computing the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax that was mandated as part of the Affordable Care Act.

As we work through the succession and retirement of senior partners in our firms, a lot of us are also reviewing and updating our internal documents and agreements.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a joint motion with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. to dismiss without prejudice a subpoena enforcement action that the SEC had filed in 2011 after Deloitte’s Chinese affiliate failed to produce audit work papers for one of its clients in China, Longtop Financial Technologies, whose securities trade in the U.S.

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance said Monday it has begun issuing the first income tax refunds of 2014 for taxpayers who used an online free tax service provided by the state.

GameStop, one of my very favorite stores, is having a hard time. Why is GameStop one of my favorite places?

One-third of Swiss banks offered amnesty by the U.S. for helping Americans evade taxes have applied for the program, a federal prosecutor stated at a Jan. 25 conference, according to three lawyers.

Ten years ago, Congress passed a law intended to penalize chief executive officers whose companies shift their legal addresses to tax havens.

The National Society of Accountants is worried about the impact of the budget cuts on the Internal Revenue Service’s ability to send out tax refunds and help taxpayers, and is sending a letter to the chairman of the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee to outline its concerns.