Practice Management

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the process it uses to account for and report costs associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new government report.

Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service presented their arguments before a federal appeals court in an effort to reinstate mandatory testing and continuing education of tax preparers.

Tax preparers are beginning to respond to the recent proposal by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to further regulate paid preparers.

Jackie Oneto, the first female managing partner at Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, sat down with Accounting Today to discuss the main hurdle hindering women in attaining leadership roles in the profession, and how to block out the background noise of people who say that they can’t conquer their goals.

Much attention has been focused on the postponement of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate—the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide them with health insurance or face significant fines, which the Obama Administration delayed for one year.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service will offer customers free help enrolling in new insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.

Sax Macy Fromm & Co., PC of Clifton, N.J., and Bollam, Sheedy, Torani, & Co. LLP headquartered in Albany, N.Y., have agreed to merge.

The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance on issuing tax refunds to same-sex married couples in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is set to square off in court Tuesday against a trio of tax preparers who won a key ruling earlier this year invalidating the IRS’s efforts to impose mandatory testing and continuing education of Registered Tax Return Preparers.

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official investigated by Congress over the agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups, has retired effective today, the agency said in a statement.