Practice Management

Milwaukee-area accounting firms Sitzberger Widmann & Company, S.C. and Hau & Associates, S.C. have merged to form Sitzberger Hau & Company S.C., effective immediately.

As a tax preparation business owner for more than 30 years, Chuck McCabe considers his success due in part to being proactive in structuring his business policies and procedures.

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

Deloitte has acquired Urgentis Digital Crisis Solutions Inc., a Calgary, Canada-based firm that helps companies prepare for and respond to cybersecurity events.

National Tax Education is planning to host a series of continuing professional education courses for tax professionals in June and July in Chicago.

More than 100 New Hampshire physicians and health care providers have been reportedly victimized by tax fraud, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is urging federal officials to investigate.

Five defendants from around the country have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie, Pa., on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a scheme in which the Internal Revenue Service paid out approximately $10 million in tax refunds.

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it is taking new steps to fix the HeartBleed bug that was recently identified on sites across the Internet.

Now that the compliance deadlines for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, are in sight, foreign banks and other financial institutions are finally getting their systems in order, even though there are still some holes in what the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are providing.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the 2015 inflation-adjusted deduction limitations for annual contributions to a health savings account.