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The Internal Revenue Service has released a new 2014 Form W-8BEN-E, “Certificate of Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting (Entities),” which can be used by foreign financial institutions and other entities in connection with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA.

A Caterpillar Inc. executive defended her company’s tax maneuvers today, telling a Senate panel that moving profits from its parts business to Switzerland from the U.S. was a legal and appropriate way to eliminate unnecessary expenses.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee plan to markup long-awaited legislation to extend a long set of expired and soon-to-expire temporary tax breaks.

CliftonLarsonAllen has acquired Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association, a Normal, Ill.-based accounting and consulting group providing services to Midwest agricultural businesses.

Compliance with, and capitalizing on, repair and MACRS regs

A roundup of firm mergers and acquisitions from the previous month.

A roundup of tax news from the previous month.

Taxpayer satisfaction with personal interactions with the Internal Revenue Service remained high despite high-profile controversies in the past year.

Catch up on tax breaks we lost at the end of 2013

Four firms share their experiences with CRM systems