Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
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The Criminal Investigation unit of the Internal Revenue Service launched 2,039 tax and money laundering cases related to COVID fraud over the past five years.
March 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service's Direct File program is attracting interest this tax season, but lack of familiarity and budget cuts at the IRS may doom it.
March 26 -
The Treasury Department limited the scope of the Corporate Transparency Act's beneficial ownership reporting requirement to foreign companies.
March 26 -
The CFA Institute is urging accounting standard-setters to require more detailed disclosures of intangible assets before they're recognized on the balance sheet.
March 26 -
The CPA organizations sent a joint comment letter to the California Air Resources Board asking for changes in the state's climate risk disclosure rules.
March 26 -
The institute is asking the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service for greater clarity in their proposed regulations for the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022.
March 25 -
The Top 50 Firm based in Troy, Michigan has expanded into Tennessee with its latest M&A deal.
March 25 -
GASB released a study on utilization of GAAP among state and local governments and found all the states are using GAAP, but only about three-quarters of localities are.
March 24 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has created three videos from its staff on its quality control standard's monitoring and remediation process.
March 24 -
The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly getting close to an agreement to share information such as taxpayers' addresses with immigration officials upon request.
March 24
