Practice management

Income per equity partner at the nation’s CPA firms jumped 5.5 percent in 2012, climbing to $386,000, according to the recently released 2013 Rosenberg MAP Survey.

Income per equity partner at the nation’s CPA firms jumped 5.5 percent in 2012, climbing to $386,000, according to the recently released 2013 Rosenberg MAP Survey.

Bernard Madoff’s former accountant pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he helped the convicted con man carry out a Ponzi scheme.

Avalara has formed a strategic alliance with PrimeGlobal North America, enabling its member firms to access Avalara’s online resource center and take advantage of the company’s accountant-centric partner programs.

While keeping up with legislation and regulations remains the top risk facing corporate tax directors, global transfer pricing is quickly becoming a more serious concern for them, according to a recent survey

Top Sage partner Net@Work has enhanced its Partner Alliance Program, which will offer Sage and non-Sage VARs and other professional service providers – including CPAs – access to the firm’s full range of products and services and future business opportunities.

The Internal Revenue Service has set the per diem rates that taxpayers can use to substantiate the amount of expenses for lodging, meals and incidental expenses when traveling away from home.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the process it uses to account for and report costs associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new government report.

Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service presented their arguments before a federal appeals court in an effort to reinstate mandatory testing and continuing education of tax preparers.

Tax preparers are beginning to respond to the recent proposal by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to further regulate paid preparers.

Jackie Oneto, the first female managing partner at Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, sat down with Accounting Today to discuss the main hurdle hindering women in attaining leadership roles in the profession, and how to block out the background noise of people who say that they can’t conquer their goals.

Much attention has been focused on the postponement of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate—the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide them with health insurance or face significant fines, which the Obama Administration delayed for one year.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service will offer customers free help enrolling in new insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.

The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance on issuing tax refunds to same-sex married couples in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is set to square off in court Tuesday against a trio of tax preparers who won a key ruling earlier this year invalidating the IRS’s efforts to impose mandatory testing and continuing education of Registered Tax Return Preparers.

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official investigated by Congress over the agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups, has retired effective today, the agency said in a statement.

Contrary to its own guidelines, the Internal Revenue Service has not evaluated whether the goals of its streamlined corporate tax audit process are being achieved or if the process should be expanded, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

BB&T Corp. lost a bid to recover at least $688 million in taxes and penalties as a federal judge ruled a series of transactions with Barclays Plc, aimed at generating tax credits, lacked economic substance.

Bloomberg BNA has released its annual projections of U.S. tax rates for 2014.

The age-old issue of whether to deduct or capitalize just got a bit more clear.