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The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Appeals has the authority to abate certain taxpayer penalties when the abatement has been denied by other IRS offices, but a new report questions whether the office is providing enough justification for its decisions.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

An open letter about dismissing fraud

Employers and taxpayers now have access to recorded webinars from the IRS about the Affordable Care Act's provisions and related tax requirements.

MACPA members predict future growth areas

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA Sales Tax Rates, a Web-based solution for up-to-the-minute sales and use tax rates.

Practitioners school Congress on tax complexity

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Boston Bruins hockey team is taking the Internal Revenue Service to court over its habit of deducting 100 percent of the cost of away-game meals.

Has there ever been a time in your life when opportunity knocked and you ignored it? Right now, there’s an industry opportunity with three letters: CPA. Are you ready to open the door and expand your CPA practice?

The IRS is reminding truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that in most cases their next federal highway use tax return is due Monday, Aug. 31.

The Tax Court has held that the “unallocated alimony/child support payments” by a doctor to his ex-wife were non-taxable.

You may find your clients worried that their identities, their credit scores and maybe their life savings will wind up at the mercy of some free-spending crook. What can you tell them?

Andrea Parness of A Parness Company CPA talks about how accountants can build better sites, in a video interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The IRS revealed today that approximately 220,000 more taxpayers than it had previously announced were affected by a breach in its “Get Transcript” Web app.

Bloomberg BNA has released a new edition of Unclaimed Property, its Tax Management Portfolio on escheatment and unclaimed property laws.

Victims of the mid-July severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides in parts of Kentucky may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

When you provide a time-based fee, and the client trusts your judgment and ability, it becomes a go. With a fixed fee, it becomes an unknown shot in the dark.

A roundup of some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

With an estimated 75 percent of CPAs expected to retire over the next 15 years, according to the AICPA, CPA firms are under pressure to recruit and retain a sufficient number of young accountants to keep the business going.