Practice Management

Tax blogger Robert Flach sees many flaws in the IRS's proposed new voluntary program.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued an updated Qualified Intermediary Agreement for foreign banks that have been approved to withhold funds from a client’s bank account to be paid to the IRS.

Former attorney and CPA Paul M. Daugerdas, 63, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for orchestrating a massive scheme in which he and co-conspirators hawked fake tax shelters for wealthy individuals to evade more than $1.6 billion in federal taxes.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

KPMG LLP’s wholly owned subsidiary, KPMG Corporate Finance LLC has acquired substantially all of the assets of St. Charles Capital, a boutique investment bank that provides M&A and capital advisory services for mid-market companies nationwide. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.

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

Now that school is out (unless you live in a part of the country still making up for lost “snow days”), it’s easy to get caught up in the general euphoria and take a vacation from thoughts of tax preparation for the summer. But now is precisely the time preparers need to keep communication lines open with their clients, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School.

The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a voluntary tax preparer education program after legal challenges derailed an earlier mandatory testing and continuing education program.

The Internal Revenue Service has successfully implemented a provision of the Affordable Care Act involving prescription drug fees imposed on pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers, according to a new report.

Devereux is actively engaged as a tax advisor and business consultant for Mueller Prost as director of manufacturing and distribution services.