Tax research

CCH’s Taxes – The Tax Magazine, one of the profession’s oldest tax-centric magazines, is now available as an app for the iPad.

The IRS takes a closer look at local lodging expenses

Top 100 Firm Postlethwaite & Netterville's Melissa Peroyea receives Health Care Leadership Award

Edvard Munch, the painter of “The Scream,” was no big fan of the Norwegian tax authorities.

State tax officials are expanding their concept of what constitutes a taxable economic presence in their state as more economic activity moves online.

The number of indirect tax increases fell from 154 in the first quarter of 2011 to 107 in the first quarter of this year.

CCH has added two new treatises on estate planning and research and development tax incentives to its CCH Expert Treatise Library.

Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has renewed and expanded its agreement with the Tax Executives Institute, an international association of 7,000 corporate tax professionals.

Bloomberg BNA has published the latest edition of its “Tax Essentials: Individuals” reference as both a printed book and an e-book that can be downloaded from Apple’s iBooks store.

The Internal Revenue Service’s new database for keeping track of the performance of organizations that provide free tax preparation services to low-income and elderly taxpayers leaves something to be desired, according to a new government report.

CCH has expanded its Expert Treatise Library with two new titles on the subject of corporate taxation.

Online accounting industry directory CPAdirectory.com has launched Ask a CPA, a free iPhone and iPad app designed to help consumers, businesses, and accounting and tax professionals with relevant tax and accounting related research and questions.

CCH has reorganized its publishing groups, creating and eliminating several positions at the accounting and tax research and software provider, while focusing more on the company's mobile technology development.

CCH has introduced CCH Integrator, which combines the company’s tax research products with other tax compliance products for multinational corporations.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is awarding $25,000 in grants to academicians and post-doctoral researchers to research educational issues that affect CPAs, the public accounting professions and the responsibility of state accounting boards to protect the public.

Intuit has made several updates to its Tax Research and Tax Import for Lacerte and ProSeries products, in response to a recent survey of accounting professionals.

Baby Boomers nearing retirement age will have many factors to consider in choosing where to live in retirement, including state taxes, according to CCH tax experts.

Last year more states, counties and cities lowered their sales tax rates than in 2010, and the number of sales tax changes also went down, according to a pair of new reports.

IMGCAP(1)]The impact of the financial crisis and resultant recession, even if now officially ended, continues to be felt.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has entered into an agreement with automated document generation product developer HotDocs Corp. to develop applications for the Thomson Reuters Checkpoint online information system.