Practice Management

Unlike year-end 2012, planning for year-end 2013 is not burdened by the uncertainties over the extension of the Bush tax cuts or the political theater that took place surrounding last New Year's Day. Nevertheless, enough change and uncertainty remains that impacts year-end 2013 tax strategies to warrant special attention by taxpayers and their tax advisors.

Recent mergers and acquisitions among accounting firms

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Recent news in tax

In response to this action by the IRS, American University professors Donald Williamson and David Kautter have created a list of "Tax Best Practices for Small Businesses," a checklist designed to help small business entrepreneurs stay up to date on all tax-related issues, and away from the scrutiny of the IRS.

The IRS needs to tighten up its procedures for handling requests for tax account information, according to a recent report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a New Jersey-based audit firm and one of its founding partners Monday for their roles in the botched audits of a China-based company that failed to disclose related party transactions by its CEO and others.

With a political stalemate looming in Washington, the Treasury Department and the IRS released their contingency plan for what would happen at the service in the event of a government shutdown -- and one thing that wouldn't happen is any postponement of tax filing deadlines.

Deloitte has added TMA Construction Consultants to its financial advisory services group. The new addition will bolster Deloitte's infrastructure and capital projects expertise throughout Canada.

Adaptive Planning has signed on Microsoft Dynamics partner and corporate performance consultant Corporate Renaissance Group to its channel, allowing the firm to offer the cloud-based budgeting and planning product to customers in Canada and the Northeastern U.S.