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IRS Lifts Veil on Star Trek and Gilligan’s Island Videos
Bowing to pressure from Congress and media outlets, the Internal Revenue Service has released a pair of campy parody videos of Star Trek and Gilligan’s Island, while admitting that the $60,000 spent to produce the videos could have been better spent. Read more »
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Illinois Governor Signs Strip Club Tax into Law
August 20, 2012Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation imposing a new tax on strip clubs that will be... Read more »
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Tax Court Holds Medical Marijuana Retailer Underreported Income
August 3, 2012The owner of a California medical marijuana dispensary was found to have underreported income.... Read more »
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IRS Investigator Concealed Timecards from Labor Dept.
August 2, 2012An Internal Revenue Service employee who owned a Sears Hometown Store on the side has pleaded... Read more »
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Tax Strategy: Reacting to the Challenges of the Health Care Law
August 1, 2012Odds have now turned against those hoping that the health care law passed in 2010 will "just go... Read more »
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CPA Pleads Guilty to Using His Skills to Help Al-Qaeda
June 4, 2012A former employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he used... Read more »
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IRS Mistakenly Sends Waitress a $434,712 Tax Refund
June 1, 2012Ginny Hopkins, a waitress who has worked for nearly two decades at a Cleveland restaurant,... Read more »
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P&N's Peroyea Honored
May 30, 2012Postlethwaite & Netterville's Melissa Peroyea Receives Health Care Leadership Award Read more »
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Self-Proclaimed Alabama Governor Sentenced for Tax Fraud
May 30, 2012A man who claimed to be the governor of Alabama in its “original jurisdiction” has been... Read more »
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Elderly Suicide Kit Seller Sentenced for Failing to Pay Taxes
May 8, 2012A federal court has sentenced a 92-year-old woman who sold kits to help people commit suicide to... Read more »
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Women in Accounting: Where are the Leading Ladies?
May 17, 2013
Marcum’s Nanette Lee Miller and Janis Cowhey McDonagh sat down with managing editor Tamika Cody to discuss some of the obstacles women in the accounting profession face when trying to make their way into leadership positions.
IMA’s Jeff Thomson on the Role and Skills of Management Accountants
May 8, 2013
Institute of Management Accountants president and CEO Jeffrey Thomson discusses why accounting students should consider management accounting as a career, and the IMA's partnership with John Wiley & Sons.
Breaking out of Molds to Get Ahead
May 6, 2013
ConvergenceCoaching partner Jennifer Wilson talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee about how female accountants can position themselves better for a promotion at their firms.
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Top 10 Tech Initiatives -- 2013
May 5, 2013
The AICPA's annual list of IT priorities for accounting firms.
Common E-mail Security Mistakes
April 23, 2013
These five bad habits can make your confidential information -- and that of your clients -- easy to steal.
The Art of the Tax Cartoon
April 9, 2013
A selection of tax cartoons from Philly tax firm Drucker & Scaccetti's 'Finding Humor in Taxes' exhibit.
