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The IRS has released Revenue Procedure 2013-21, which provides the depreciation deduction limitations for owners of passenger automobiles.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, one of the Treasury Department’s lead agencies in the battle against money laundering and other crimes, has issued an advisory to financial institutions warning them to beware of tax refund fraud and identity theft, and to report such activity by filing Suspicious Activity Reports.

Private equity fund managers are beginning to be concerned that they may lose their tax break on carried interest as lawmakers in Washington again debate tax reform.

Executive appointments, new arrivals and one unannounced departure from a major tax and accounting vendor were on tap this past week, plus we're getting ready for conference season; where will you be going and why?

Rob Ganjon, the new CEO at iLumen, explains how business intelligence is the next natural step in accountants' evolution.

Less than two months ago Washington escaped from the doomsday scenario of the looming “fiscal cliff.” Now it faces the threat of the less colorfully named “sequester” or “sequestration,” depending on who’s talking about it, but somehow the dire warnings of impending disaster are beginning to sound unconvincing.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed notices with a federal district court and appeals court of its intention to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down the mandatory testing and continuing education requirements of its Registered Tax Return Preparer regime and asked the court to suspend the January ruling that invalidated the RTRP regime.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a favorable private letter ruling allowing WTP Exchange, an affiliate of WTP Advisors, to provide both like-kind exchange software and qualified intermediary services.

It doesn’t matter if you are an accountant, attorney, banker, entrepreneur or in which business, company, industry or profession you toil.

The IRS announced that it would no longer hold tax returns that both claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit and had incomplete or appropriate Forms 8867 attached.