Practice management

The Internal Revenue Service’s art appraisal experts are not subject to either a comprehensive quality review program or continuing education requirements specifically devoted to appraising art, according to a new government report.

An Oregon tax preparer has been sentenced to six months in prison for using his clients’ personal information to defraud them and the Internal Revenue Service.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service does not have a formal process for tracking or analyzing the calls it receives from taxpayers calling its toll-free phone line for help with their IRS problems, according to a new report.

Three overseas advocacy organizations are responding positively to the Internal Revenue Service’s recent move to help dual citizens living abroad.

Former NFL wide receiver Johnnie Morton Jr., who used to play for the Detroit Lions, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, was sentenced Monday to two years’ probation for lying to a federal grand jury during an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation.

The Internal Revenue Service does not always control or quickly process referrals alleging that tax-exempt organizations are potentially violating federal tax law, according to a new report.

The Tax Court has denied a married couple a charitable contribution deduction for the value of a house they donated to a local fire department for training purposes.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the testing of its new Customer Account Data Engine, according to a new report.

Accounting firms are beginning to find answers to the question of how to measure and value their marketing and social media efforts.

Two employees from Anderson ZurMuehlen & Co. PC, a multi-office firm based in Helena, Mont., with 240 employees. Generation X senior software engineer Luke Muszkiewicz, born in 1978, and Baby Boomer shareholder Kevin Kelley, born in 1949, shared their views on the following question: "How important is employee coaching to the success of the firm?"

Court rulings explore when IRS regulations are due deference.

Highlights in tax news

Three bills before Congress could offer small businesses some tax help.

The House and Senate passed a highway bill Friday that contains provisions to prevent a doubling of the interest rates for subsidized Stafford student loans.

An outside advisory committee to the Internal Revenue Service is asking the agency to reinforce its standards for security, privacy and fraud prevention, including “phantom prepared” returns.

Well, now we know the answer. The individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the Administration has variously said was a both a tax and not a tax, is, in fact, a tax. That’s what the Supreme Court has called it, as a reason for finding it constitutional.

The House Judiciary Committee’s Crime Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on the growing problem of identity theft and income tax preparation fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service mails lien notices to taxpayers in a timely manner as required by law, but does not always follow its own regulations for notifying taxpayer representatives and processing undelivered lien notices, according to a new report.

Congressional Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have introduced a pair of bills to extend the production tax credit for wind energy manufacturers through the end of 2013 and provide a 10 percent income tax credit for employer payroll increases this year.