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AccountantsWorld has renamed its cloud-based accounting system Accounting Relief as Accounting Power.

Unlike last year, tax planning for 2013 is not hampered by uncertainties over a looming fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, there is always some uncertainty and a few expiring provisions to warrant special attention by taxpayers.

Many small and midsize online retailers are worried about the impact on their profitability if federal legislation is approved that would require them to collect sales taxes from customers, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to take additional steps to improve security at some of its facilities, according to a new report that found an increase in threats to IRS employees in recent years.

U.S. and French officials signed an intergovernmental agreement Thursday to advance the implementation of the Foreign Accounting Tax Compliance Act.

The head of the Internal Revenue Service’s small business unit said his division expects to move from focusing on audits of small corporations to partnerships.

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted to mistakenly assessing penalties on businesses that had requested extensions on filing the Form 5500 for their employee retirement plans.

Rich Stovsky, U.S. Private Company Services Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, discusses some of the main global trends that accounting firms should advise their private company clients to consider to help them build their businesses, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Accounting firms could find value in managing their clients online funding campaigns, according to Xcentric's vice president of marketing Roy Keely.

The Internal Revenue Service has released nearly 3,000 pages of training materials used by the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit in making determinations of whether to grant tax-exempt status to organizations, in response to a lawsuit from the nonprofit publisher Tax Analysts.