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Group-of-20 nations agreed to implement a global standard for automatically exchanging information between tax authorities by the end of 2015, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.

Sikich, Top 40 accounting, advisory, investment banking, technology and managed services firm, announced Monday its merger with 403 Labs, a Brookfield, Wis.-based information security consultancy.

The number of tax lawsuits filed has declined nearly 10 percent in the past year, and is down more than 30 percent from five years ago, according to a new report.

The American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada have reached an agreement to give CPAs in both the U.S. and Canada access to the same technical resources and credentials that signify advanced proficiency in the disciplines of forensic and technology advisory services to promote greater consistency across North America.

A roundup of recent accounting firm mergers and acquisitions …

The IRS should have the authority to regulate tax preparers.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including jail time for the crooked preparer who was caught by a vigilant mail carrier.

As the poet Edgar Guest tells us, “It takes a heap o’ livin’ just to make a house a home,” or, in a case just decided by the New York Court of Appeals, to at least make it a “permanent place of abode.”

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

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen took some time off from his busy filing season schedule to discuss some questions posed by our readers and staff.