Practice Management

The Treasury Department’s new steps to curb the tide of corporate inversion deals and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s recently released recommendations aimed at combating tax base erosion and profit shifting signal increasing momentum in the battle to prevent corporate tax revenues from eroding.

The Treasury Department announced steps that will make it harder for U.S. companies to move their addresses outside the country to reduce taxes, clamping down on the practice known as inversions.

Sage North America announced an agreement to acquire PayChoice, the privately held provider of payroll solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

Is your firm experiencing double-digit organic growth year after year? If so, you have achieved something that almost every firm in the country would love to emulate. If you answered no, you might be underachieving—and the most important question is why.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to move up its W-2 filing deadline to January 31 and to lower the threshold for requiring electronic filing of W-2 returns in an effort to curb the growing trend of identity theft related tax fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has announced the new 2014-2015 per diem rates that taxpayers can use, starting October 1, to substantiate their expenses for lodging, meals and incidental expenses when traveling away from home.

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s Starr International Co. seeks a refund for overpayment of taxes for 2007 in a $38 million lawsuit against the U.S.

Over the last year, the House and Senate have both proposed bills to renew a number of popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals. These “extenders” include some important changes of which tax preparers and accountants — especially those dealing with the nation’s small and midsized businesses —need to be aware.

Time again to address the annual most important detail of your practice: How much should you raise your fees?

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases (and names).