Practice Management

A New Jersey tax preparer pleaded guilty Monday to preparing false tax returns.

The Return Preparer Office of the IRS has released details on the professional credentials of those who currently hold Preparer Tax Identification Numbers, or PTINs.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Robert Coplan, a former Ernst & Young LLP executive convicted of selling illegal tax shelters that cost the federal government as much as $2 billion.

Mortimer Caplin, who served as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the Kennedy administration and the early months of the Johnson administration, sees problems ahead for taxpayers and practitioners from the government shutdown.

I don’t think I would be going too far out on a limb to say that the vast majority of accountants did not become accountants so they could get into marketing or sales.

Jody Padar of New Vision CPA Group and Jennifer Warawa of Sage North America feel the heat of Death Valley and Furnace Creek as they travel across the Nevada desert on the Sage Listens Tour RV and they liken it to the knowledge that CPAs need to share about practice management.

With the opening of health insurance exchanges and marketplaces this week under the Affordable Care Act, accountants and other professional service providers are being urged to pursue doctor’s offices as clients, especially as the prognosis for their financial health is expected to remain positive.

“Oh what I’d give to get a good night’s sleep.” We’ve heard that before, maybe even said it ourselves, especially during tax season. But tax preparer Joyce Linzy was prepared to spend money to make it happen.

Mr. and Mrs. Friedberg were just another couple of average married taxpayers like any other married taxpayers happily minding their own business until the IRS decided to wage a war of terror on them.

Grant Thornton LLP has achieved an all-time high annual revenue mark for the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, with $1.274 billion in revenue generated in fiscal year 2013, up 5 percent from the previous year.