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The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed.

Akron, Ohio-based financial services firm Sequoia Financial Group, along with Cohen & Company and Cohen Fund Audit Services, raised record funds for Junior Achievement for a second straight year.

The United States is working with other countries on multinational corporate tax issues, including the increasingly thorny issue of base erosion and profit shifting.

Cybercrime is on the rise, and accountants are in a position to help their clients take steps to prevent it.

Aspiring accountants from Husson University in Maine are volunteering to help individuals file their state and federal taxes through the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Program.

The American Institute of CPAs, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and Prometric are marking the 10th anniversary of computer-based testing for the uniform CPA exam.

The Marketplace Fairness Act, which was supposed to finally settle the question of how states can tax online sales, appears to have stalled in Congress after passing the Senate last year.

Kenneth Ames, tax advisory partner with southern California CPA firm White Nelson Diehl Evans, received a National Service to Youth Award from the California Boys & Girls Club of America for his 10 years of service on the Carlsbad club’s board of directors.

Accountants have a duty to make sure their clients' confidential financial files and tax forms are kept safe, and fortunately there are some good products on the market for doing just that.

Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School in Boston is launching an accelerated master of science in taxation degree for attorneys.