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The Internal Revenue Service alerted taxpayers and tax professionals in an email Friday about an interest calculation error on certain notices mailed the weeks of July 1 and July 8.

The Internal Revenue Service said in an email to tax professionals Friday that it would begin sending letters to enrolled agents in late July when their enrollment status is being inactivated or terminated because of their failure to renew.

Thomson Reuters has released the 2013 edition of its annual Tax Planning Guide.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., contended that the immigration reform bill approved by the Senate last month violates the Constitution because it contains revenue provisions that are supposed to originate in the House.

A man from the Houston area who was arrested late last month at an airport while attempting to flee the country was indicted Friday in the Central District of California in what authorities allege is a multimillion dollar identity theft and tax refund fraud scheme involving more than 300 victims.

Beth Wiener, partner-in-charge of the Alternative Investment Group at Marcum, sat down with Accounting Today’s managing editor Tamika Cody to share what she does to pave the way for rising female leaders in the accounting profession.

House Democrats are demanding answers from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration about its report on the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of tax-exempt groups, demanding to know why some newly uncovered documents were left out of the report.

The Treasury Department said Friday that due to overwhelming interest from countries around the world, it will extend by six months the start of the withholding and account due diligence requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, until July 1, 2014, to allow more time to complete agreements with foreign jurisdictions.

Most CPAs these days consider themselves the trusted advisor, yet few are clearly separating themselves from their competitors. iLumen chief executive Rob Ganjon explains how practitioners can look to current tools to help make that distinction.