Practice management

A CPA has been suspended for 12 months from practicing before the Internal Revenue Service for providing false or misleading information when preparing his clients’ tax returns.

Despite its massive tax increases, the President’s 2011 Budget Plan contains a number of revenue provisions calculated to encourage business expansion and move the economy upward.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Chilean Finance Minister Andrés Velasco signed a new income tax treaty between the United States and Chile to provide certainty and stability of tax treatment for U.S. and Chilean cross-border investors.

The United States and Hungary have signed a new income tax treaty that brings an existing agreement signed by the two countries in 1979 into closer conformity with current U.S. international tax policy.

IMGCAP(1)]Accountants are often considered the trusted advisor to business owners. Yet, when it comes to their own practices, we often find they have not paid enough attention to critical issues at the office.

The U.S. Tax Court has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts taxpayer whose deduction for her sex change operation was rejected by the Internal Revenue Service.

IMGCAP(1)]Like your finances, your firm’s marketing efforts should be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that your short- and long-term plans are in order.

As expected, President Obama proposed a $3.8 trillionbudget for Fiscal 2011, including a projected record deficit of $1.6 trillion.

IMGCAP(1)]Google has contrived a convoluted way to determine its income tax responsibilities to the U.S. and other taxing jurisdictions, in part by shifting income to its operations in Ireland.

Congressional auditors responsible for holding governmentagencies responsible for their financial integrity are doing a bang-up job -according to a performance review that they conducted on themselves.

While there were no real surprises in the State of the Union speech, it did flesh out some tax proposals that will be acted on in the days ahead, according to observers.

Swiss authorities said they would continue talks with the U.S. to resolve an impasse over the disclosure of secret bank accounts at UBS after a Swiss court blocked a deal reached by the two governments last year.

A former CPA whose license has been suspended by the Oregon Board of Accountancy has pleaded guilty to charges related to mortgage fraud.

A California man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. after he was accused of filing at least 250 tax returns of deceased individuals.

A new report from BNA Tax & Accounting on transfer pricing predicts that tax authorities in different countries will continue to closely scrutinize intercompany transactions across national borders and will begin simultaneous audits of several large companies’ intercompany prices this year.

Financial Executives International has filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of a petition for review of the U.S. v. Textron case, involving the IRS’s right to examine the tax accrual work papers of a company.

A free guide for CPAs to sales and use tax has been released by sales tax technology provider SpeedTax.

President Obama is widely expected to call for a three-year spending freeze on key areas of his discretionary budget during the State of the Union address on Wednesday evening, but critics are already warning that now is not the time to cut spending just as the country is emerging from a recession.

The Internal Revenue Service is considering requiring some business taxpayers to report uncertain tax positions on their tax returns, according to Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden previewed some of the major themes in the president’s upcoming State of the Union address, including a proposal to increase some tax credits for middle-class families.