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The Caldwell House Bed and Breakfast in Salisbury Mills, N.Y., is offering some serious tax relief for tax preparers and accountants.

The Ohio Society of CPAs (OSCPA) announced this week that they have been honored with the Corporate Diversity Award from The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business.

Accountants can play an important role in deterring human trafficking and smuggling.

Exact Macola, provider of ERP and business software with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, recently announced the details of its community service programs to fight hunger both locally in Ohio and across the Americas. This year, Macola will be participating in the Empty Bowls Project - an international grassroots effort that raises money and awareness on ending hunger issues.

More companies are offering technology this tax season to connect taxpayers with a preparer who is willing to do their taxes. The latest is a startup known as TaxChat.

Firms often look for something to differentiate themselves from the pack. It can range anywhere to being a tightknit, community-oriented business, to a specialization-heavy practice. For Philadelphia-area firm Scaccetti & Drucker, their distinctive element came in the form of a mantra: the "Tax Warrior."

According to The Utah Statesman, Utah State University's student newspaper, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at the University will be launching a new Executive Master of Accounting (EMAcc) program, set to debut this upcoming June. Similar in nature to an Executive Masters of Business Administration, the program is designed to help a professional work and study for CPA status simultaneously.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, 28 percent of taxpayers wait until the last few weeks of tax season to file their taxes, and that adds more pressure to their tax preparers.

Following the AICPA's announcement on the final details of the new CPA Exam set to debut in April 2017, Becker Professional Education has launched their new Exam Change Central in order to provide support and resources for future test-takers.

EY has received the inaugural Corporate Volunteerism Award last week from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), the international non-profit which teaches the entrepreneurial mindset to underprivileged youth.