AT Think

As an addendum to the Debits & Credits item I posted last Friday, I received some emails from Jan Van Dusen, the Oakland, Calif., cat rescuer who beat the IRS in U.S. Tax Court last year, but nevertheless had her cats seized by the Oakland animal control authorities.

How did it get to be tax season again? Where did my off season go?

Cat rescuer Jan Van Dusen won a case against the Internal Revenue Service last June when the U.S. Tax Court agreed that she could write off most of the $12,068 that she claimed in charitable contributions on her 2004 tax return for caring for over 70 abandoned cats.

The American Institute of CPAs announced a new high school program, Project Innovation: The Start Here, Go Places Competition of Creative Excellence, which calls for feature ideas for the student career networking website, Start Here, Go Places.

It’s important during tax season to keep client files secure, but with all the long hours, it’s also important to go home and get some rest.

Crowe Horwath learning and development executive Lisa Roen and Susan Hodkinson, chief operating officer of Toronto accounting firm Soberman, discussed their firms’ formal employee programs during a talent retention session Thursday at the Winning is Everything conference in Las Vegas, but stressed that success is less tangible.

The Internal Revenue Service is taking steps to address the growing problem of taxpayer identity theft, but the head of a security company thinks that taxpayers also need to take matters into their own hands.

The PhD Project, a program aimed at increasing diversity in America’s business schools, has opened nominations for inductees into the PhD Project Hall of Fame, which was established in 2011 to recognize people with commitment to the project and its mission.

The Big Four firms saw outstanding revenue growth from 2010 to 2011 after a sharp reversal in 2009.

I was in my spin class the other day and got into a fairly decent conversation about New Year’s resolutions. I told them that I don’t make resolutions, I make choices.