Practice management

The founder of a business called Uncle Sam’s Tax Service has pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of dead people and using them to file tax returns.

The former head of the Polaris accounting association has started a new association of independent accounting, legal and consulting firms known as Abacus Worldwide.

At the request of the IRS Chief Technology Officer, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reviewed the 2009 re-engineering of the service’s End-User Equipment and Services organization, and declared it successful.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman plans to finish his term on Nov. 9 and will be replaced by Steven T. Miller, deputy commissioner for services and enforcement, as acting commissioner.

We spend our days (and some nights and weekends) helping our professional services clients communicate what they do, who they serve and most importantly, how they are different.

Bipartisan support for the R&D tax credit can mean benefits for small and mid-sized businesses

Presentations from the 2012 IRS Tax Forums are now available online.

Congress is considering allowing the Internal Revenue Service to report on taxpayers’ tax debts to consumer credit bureaus.

Competing with the “giants” of the accounting industry is a difficult task.

A delivery truck carrying mail addressed to the New Jersey Division of Taxation was involved in an accident on the New Jersey Turnpike and caught fire on September 11, according to the State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury and most of the truck’s contents burned.

Dennis Duban, a Los Angeles-based accountant and tax return preparer, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the IRS and assisting in the filing of a false federal income tax return.

(Bloomberg) Any congressional effort to overhaul the U.S. Tax Code should make deficit reduction a priority, instead of cutting high-income Americans’ tax rates, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said.

The IRS is reportedly fine-tuning its procedures for collecting and releasing preparers’ personal information gathered during Preparer Tax Identification Number registration.

CCH has released a new Tax Briefing: 2012 Year-End Tax Planning to provide guidance and analysis on potential tax rate changes, the anticipated expirations of Bush-era tax cuts, post-election tax triggers and other scenarios.

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SingerLewak partner and tech consultant Bob Green explains why and how clients should understand cloud computing can get the out of the IT business and become more strategic.

Accounting and financial reporting consume 32 percent of the average family office's time, according to a new report.

Sir David Tweedie led the International Accounting Standards Board for a decade until the end of his second term in June of last year, and now he is getting set to make a similar impact on the valuation profession.

Nearly 80 percent of multiple-partner CPA firms believe succession planning will become a major issue for their firms, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service has given a $2 million reward to a whistleblower who exposed an alleged tax avoidance scheme by an Illinois tool maker that cost the U.S. Treasury hundreds of millions of dollars.