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Rebecca Newton-Clarke, a senior editor/author at Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint, discusses some of the sales tax issues that are relevant to e-commerce, including nexus, in this video.

Global shipping and international trade have been reserved historically for big companies with the resources required to manage the disparate steps involved in moving shipments worldwide. After managing “big trade” for some of the largest companies in the world, I believe the real global trade opportunity is with small and midsize businesses. But SMBs are likely flying blind (and under your radar); they need your help.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has proposed to simplify the complicated capital depreciation rules for businesses.

A Georgia couple have pleaded guilty to participating in a identity theft-related tax fraud scheme in which they used the Internal Revenue Service’s online ‘Get Transcript’ application to steal other taxpayers’ refunds.

With the April 2016 tax filing season behind us, it is time to start focusing clients on new tax issues they will be facing for the current tax year.

Ever-evolving regulatory complexity, coupled with an increasingly competitive marketplace, globalization and the rise of part-time and casual employees make it more difficult than ever for growing businesses to keep up with the numerous changes in the law, risking costly noncompliance.

The state tax arena is filled with variation, complexity, confusion and ambiguity, which has major implications for U.S. corporations, according to findings from Bloomberg BNA’s 2016 Survey of State Tax Departments, conducted for the 16th consecutive year.

The New York State Society of CPAs will be holding its first ever Sustainability Investment Leadership Conference on May 6. This is a new area that could result in substantial involvement by CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations providing guidance to private foundations on program-related investments.

A pair of Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are urging their colleagues to increase the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit by 50 percent.

The two top Sprint Corp. executives who were caught up in a tax-shelter scandal in 2003 now blame the Internal Revenue Service for losing their jobs.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Last week the Tax Court, in a case of first impression, ruled that payments made by a decedent through a trust to pay premiums on life insurance policies obtained to fund buy-sell agreements should not be regarded as loans still owed to her estate.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued an alert Friday warning that it has received information that callers impersonating IRS employees or the Treasury Department are demanding payments on iTunes Gift Cards.

As a general rule, the cost of commercial real estate improvements is recovered over a painfully long period of 39 years via straight-line depreciation only.

Could those Form 4868 extensions that you’re filing for your clients turn tax procrastinators into prey?

While you’re spring cleaning at home, why not do the same for your business? That’s right, it’s the season for some maintenance and a springtime tidying up of your accounting firm’s website.

The Tax Foundation has released a report on proposals to integrate the corporate and individual income tax codes and how they might work in the context of congressional tax reform.

Liberty Tax Service has developed an executive task force to examine issues within the company “and take aggressive action” to ensure all franchisees meet the tax prep giant’s standards.

Industry consultant Allan Koltin once shared a statistic that probable client retention rates were 81 percent for clients using four services from their financial services provider, compared with 12 percent for clients using just one service. This indicates that accountants can benefit when clients utilize more services from the firm.