Practice Management

A roundup of recent tax news.

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The profession has tried for years to coordinate, regulate, certify and monitor a vocation where the only tool to control illegal financial trickery is the good will of professionals who probably work hard to obey the law anyway.

Some of our favorite recent tax cases.

Stephen Mankowski CPA of Hatboro, and Edward Caine of Bryn Mawr, Penn., agreed to merge their practices after becoming friends through their respective leadership positions in the National Conference of CPA Practitioners.

Early on my boss took me to a client that I was to work on. He started to explain what needed to be done and what the client did, but then he said, “I hate this client—everything is always messed up and nothing ever makes sense.”

Six former Internal Revenue Service employees have pleaded guilty to receiving unemployment benefits while they worked at the agency.

KPMG LLP and Rothstein Kass, a leading professional services firm in the hedge fund industry, have entered into an agreement to merge. Terms of the deal are undisclosed and it is expected to wrap up in a few weeks.

For tax preparers who were somewhat dismayed by the recent IRS statistics indicating a slight drop-off in the number of taxpayers who were using a professional to prepare their taxes as opposed to do-it-yourself tax software, take heart.