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As states face more budget deficits this year, the news coming out of state capitals lately has not been too encouraging.

Freed Maxick & Battaglia launched a mobile initiative today to educate business professionals about the New York State Excelsior Jobs Program, which provides job creation and investment incentives to firms in strategic industries such as financial services, manufacturing and green technology.

The Internal Revenue Service could be joining the “birther movement,” saying Wednesday that it will no longer accept Puerto Rican birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010.

NetSuite’s corporate citizenship program announced the latest donation of the company’s cloud-based business software service to social enterprises Easy Office, United Prosperity, EdTec, Envirofit and Kiva.

How does our current recession (or, more likely, soft depression) compare with the Great Depression?

The IRS Oversight Board has just released its 2010 Taxpayer Attitude Survey, and it has some surprising findings.

Karen Love, director of practice growth at Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, P.C., was named one of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2010 by Houston Woman magazine.

The American Institute of CPAs has given its inaugural Personal Financial Planning Lifetime Achievement Award to Stanley H. Breitbard for his practice area development and work improving national financial literacy.

The National Society of Accountants is asking the Internal Revenue Service to postpone its new e-file requirements.

McGladrey Alliance, an affiliation of U.S.-based independent accounting and consulting firms, announced the 10 recent graduates of its partner development program.