Practice management

BDO Seidman plans to launch the firm’s first-ever national advertising campaign, encompassing TV, print, digital media and indoor signs.

The Internal Revenue Service did not work effectively on over a quarter of the cases involving delinquent taxes of between $100,000 and $1 million, and in some cases simply dropped them, according to a new report.

When filing a 2008 federal tax return, taxpayers will need to know the amount of their economic stimulus payment to properly determine if they are eligible for a recovery rebate credit.

Did you get your W-2? These documents are essential to filling out most individual tax returns. You should receive a Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, from each of your employers each year.

If the patch for the alternative minimum tax is going to be one of the hurdles holding up reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill, let’s get rid of it.

The House Financial Services Committee grilled a group of bankers who received money from the financial bailout over how they had been using the money.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that negotiators from the House and Senate have reached an agreement on the stimulus package.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spelled out plans for how the government will spend trillions of dollars to deal with unfreezing credit and taking troubled assets off the books of financial institutions.

The Senate has approved the economic stimulus bill after three Republican senators agreed to vote for the massive package aimed at reviving the economy.

The problem of companies evading taxes by misclassifying employees as independent contractors appears to be growing.

The Senate plans a crucial procedural vote Monday after a group of moderate senators forged a compromise over the weekend to trim approximately $110 billion from the economic stimulus bill.

The Internal Revenue Service listed several tax credits and benefits available to taxpayers with disabilities as well as the parents of disabled children.

I have moments when I wonder if I’ve gotten more than I bargained for.

Peoples Income Tax, a local tax prep chain in Virginia, plans to give a break to recently laid-off workers.

Corporate tax executives cited management of the effective tax rate and taxation of international operations as their top two business tax concerns in 2009, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service paid between $10 billion and $12 billion in tax year 2006 to taxpayers who erroneously claimed the earned income tax credit despite IRS efforts to step up compliance.

The Senate has unanimously approved a $15,000 tax credit for individuals who purchase a home in the next year.

Accounting firm DeLeon & Stang has acquired Daniel G. Falk & Associates, expanding its service offerings.

It’s no surprise the TARP has turned out to be such a murky endeavor, since even the name of the controversial bailout program has been in doubt from the beginning.

Accounting firm Barfield Murphy Shank & Smith has formed a group to help restructure struggling small companies.