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QuickBooks maker Intuit and American Express now offer eligible preparers the option of putting some clients’ IRS refunds on a new American Express Serve Card, a reloadable prepaid account.

H&R Block is debuting a new program to encourage consumer savings at tax time, working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. government agency charged with making financial markets work for American consumers, to encourage consumers to use tax refunds to build savings.

A roundup of recent accounting firm mergers and acquisitions

One of the efforts states are making to increase their revenue stream is to tighten up their enforcement of worker misclassification.

The Internal Revenue Service has released proposed regulations to address the tax treatment of distributions from designated Roth IRA accounts under tax-favored retirement plans.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on the deductibility of expenses for lodging when an individual is not traveling away from home, permitting them in some cases for taxpayers who pay or incur local lodging expenses.

Ford Motor Co. lost another bid to recoup $445 million in interest on overpayment of income taxes, with an appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, blaming inconsistent tax agency rules for its denial.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

A new podcast series aims to help small accounting firms grow.

Tractor Supply has been one of the fastest-growing retailers in the U.S. for several years running, and it owes much of its success to one thing: It specializes in serving a particular group of customers, and it primarily sells products those customers want.