Practice Management

BKR International hosted a panel of some of the best accounting marketers in the country in conjunction with the Association for Accounting Marketing Annual Summit in Austin, Texas. Putting their smart brains together, they agreed on 10 best practices for building the reputation and visibility of accounting firms in a high technology, but still high touch industry.

Bloomberg BNA has released FATCA — Information Reporting and Withholding Under Chapter 4, a new report portfolio in which international tax practitioners from PricewaterhouseCoopers analyze the reporting and withholding requirements imposed by the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act on both financial and non-financial institutions.

Citrin Cooperman has added partners and staff of MGI Repetti. The combination is scheduled to close on July 1.

KPMG LLP has acquired the business and technology consulting firm, Zanett Commercial Solutions. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.

Love them or hate them, there’s one thing everyone can agree upon about the major government-mandated changes sweeping through the world of health care insurance: They’re confusing. And since so many of the changes involves taxes, don’t be surprised if your clients expect you to have all the answers.

My father was dying—too young and too soon. He succumbed over a nine-month period to coronary heart disease. Today his life could have been extended, but not in 1976.

A collection of accounting firm mergers and acquisitions…

The House Ways and Means Committee chairman called for a special prosecutor to probe the Internal Revenue Service’s loss of e-mails from the time the agency gave extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.

J.D. Cloud & Co. LLP has agreed to merge with Clark Schaefer Hackett. The deal is set to close on July 1.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including a surprising number of cases involving fraudulent families.