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 Internal Revenue Service showed off its upcoming Direct File free tax preparation service ahead of its pilot test in a dozen states starting in March.
January 25 -
The Global Reporting Initiative published a major update to its standard for disclosing impacts on plant and animal species.
January 25 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued a notice to provide relief to parents who got snagged by problems with Maryland's prepaid college savings program.
January 25 -
Businesses are likely to see more sales tax audits in 2024 as a result of changes happening across the states, according to a new report.
January 24 -
The House Ways and Means Committee reported the text of the Tax Relief for Workers and Families Act after voting last week to advance the bipartisan bill.
January 24 -
Global fee income for accounting and audit services increased 15% to $3.6 billion, while RSM's tax revenues jumped 17% to $2.6 billion.
January 23 -
The Financial Accounting Foundation has overhauled the website for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, with new websites in the works for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the FAF itself in the weeks ahead.
January 23 -
The Internal Revenue Service unveiled a Simple Notice initiative Tuesday to review, redesign and deploy hundreds of its notices, starting with the most common ones.
January 23 -
MahoneySabol merged in Giamalis; and Wagner, Duys & Wood combined with Kaplan Company to form Wagner, Kaplan, Duys & Wood, LLP.
January 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service has revised the question it has asked in recent years about income from digital assets such as cryptocurrency on the Form 1040 for individual taxpayers this tax season and added it for the first time to tax forms for estates, trusts, partnerships and C and S corporations.
January 22
