Practice Management

O'Connor Davies and Mersel, Klein & Co. have agreed to merge. The combined firm is operating under the O'Connor Davies name.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a set of proposed regulations to prevent abuses of the partnership basis adjustment rules, disallowing partnership loss transfers to avoid some of the abuses uncovered by the Enron scandal.

The Internal Revenue Service has decided to postpone a change it had planned for this year to limit the number of e-file signature authorization documents for filing Form 1041 estate and trust tax returns to a single 1041 return rather than multiple returns.

The plaintiffs who lost a recent lawsuit trying to prevent the federal government from providing tax credits to purchase health insurance on federal exchanges have filed for an expedited appeal in the case.

Keeping an eye on all of the legislative and regulatory changes that occur throughout the course of the year is no easy task.

McGladrey has released a new white paper providing typical costs and considerations related to deciding which ERP platform a client should purchase.

Sage and NetSuite partner BAASS Business Solutions has expanded to New York by adding in Dan Sulman, former partner and co-founder of Sage 300 ERP and CRM consultant Pyramid Consulting Inc.

Open Systems Inc. has merged in Greenville, S.C. channel partner Application Computer Systems (ACS), marking the third such move over the past two years.

A federal appeals court has held that evidence seized during a premises search of a taxpayer's home by armed IRS agents, possibly in violation of statutory authority, was nevertheless admissible.

Even though tax season for individual tax returns has been delayed until January 31, the Internal Revenue Service and the Free File Alliance are opening up free electronic filing for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $58,000 or less.