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Now that Labor Day has come and gone, back-to-school sales tax holidays are over for most consumers, but accountants still have to deal with reporting what’s taxable and what’s not.

Top five reasons the corporate/partnership tax return was not filed until this week (Sept. 15) 1)   Still waiting on other CPA for an outside K1. 2)   Still waiting on information from business owner despite multiple calls, emails, and texts to move things along. 3)   Still waiting on partner to make a decision on how to handle a specific tax situation. (No additional information has been gathered or changed since March 15) …

Generation Opportunity, a national, nonpartisan youth advocacy organization, recently released its Millennial Jobs Report for August 2015. The data is non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) and is specific to 18-29 year olds.

All the speed, athleticism and teamwork inherent in college football and NASCAR will merge again this year when TaxSlayer.com combines its football and car-racing assets in a series of high-impact promotions.

The 2016 Robert Half Salary Guide for Accounting and Finance was released this week and is now available online. The guide projects starting salaries for more than 400 roles specific to the accounting and finance fields. Overall, U.S. accounting and finance salaries are expected to increase 4.7 percent next year.

Certify, a company that specializes in expense management software, wants to draw attention to the problem of expense report fraud.

The percentage of business executives who are optimistic about the U.S. economy going forward dipped below 50 percent for the first time since early 2014, according to the third quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. companies who hold executive and senior management accounting roles.

Puerto Rico is struggling under $72 billion in debt that is forcing the territory to make some tough choices.

Thirty White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP (WNDE), the accounting and tax services firm based in Southern California, recently volunteered at the Orange County Rescue Mission - a Tustin non-profit that serves the community’s homeless and helps them attain self-sufficiency.

Marcum LLP, a top national accounting and advisory services firm, today announced that all Marcum offices will be closed for business on Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving. All employees firm-wide will instead work at charity events arranged for Marcum teams from every office.