Practice Management

State tax officials are expanding their concept of what constitutes a taxable economic presence in their state as more economic activity moves online.

Taxpayers whose identities are stolen receive confusing and conflicting instructions from the Internal Revenue Service and delays of up to a year before their tax problems are resolved, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration were urged during a congressional hearing Tuesday to take further steps to curb identity theft-related tax fraud.

What Stephen King's recent article on the Buffett Rule reveals about debates over taxes and government spending in the U.S.

Apart from financial risk, 66 percent of corporate board members identified reputational risk as their primary concern, according to a survey of 190 board directors by accounting firm EisnerAmper.

Uncertainty lingers over whether Congress will extend all or some of the tax cuts and incentives set to expire at the end of the year.

The Internal Revenue Service saved approximately $10.2 million in equipment costs in fiscal year 2011 by implementing virtual server technology, according to a new government report.

The General Services Administration is now coming under scrutiny for offering government contractors a tax deduction in exchange for giving the agency 19 percent of the money from the tax break.

Check out the digital edition of the May 2012 issue of Accounting Today.

Things don’t look so good for Amazon laws. The laws, which are the efforts of states to extend nexus to cover sales from remote vendors, have suffered several setbacks in recent weeks.