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Changes in our firm have been rapid over the past year. We moved offices, added employees, and changed our name. That’s a lot for a small firm. Our clients have felt the changes as well, and they’ve been open with their responses.

Culver City, Calif., has suspended a business tax to attract more movie producers to shoot films in the historic city.

Maryland-based accounting firm Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra reached out to the community as part of the Academy of Finance and pulled in new talent.

A team of four University at Buffalo School of Management seniors won the fifth annual Becker Professional Education Case Competition last week on the UB campus.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who heads the Internal Revenue Service’s Taxpayer Advocacy Service, is welcoming several of the changes announced by the IRS in its tax lien process, which she has long criticized, but she also made it clear that the IRS needs to do more.

Woburn, Mass.-based accounting firm DiCicco, Gulman & Co. was granted a 2010 Gold Footprint Award this week from Building Impact, the nonprofit that connects people in Greater Boston-area commercial and residential buildings with local volunteer and charity opportunities.

Ernst & Young has managed to transfer the lawsuit brought by former New York Attorney General (and now Governor) Andrew Cuomo over its audits of Lehman Brothers from state court to federal court, but the new attorney general wants to move the case back to his turf.

Do you know what your firm’s key competitive advantage is? You know, your area of specialty; the thing that you do better than any other firm in the world?

More states and localities have been raising revenue by imposing taxes on the growing number of cell phones and smart phones carried by consumers, with the taxes often hidden inside the small print on the wireless service bill.

Iowa State University students are currently providing tax help as part of both the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program and a business course.