Practice Management

A trip to the post office on Tax Day isn't the same as it used to be.

Lee Storey, the producer and director of an award-winning documentary about the singing group “Up with People,” scored a major victory for filmmakers in a ruling by the U.S. Tax Court.

CCH has added two new treatises on estate planning and research and development tax incentives to its CCH Expert Treatise Library.

The American Society of Tax Problem Solvers has launched a program with 70 of the group’s member firms to help returning combat veterans get their tax problems resolved.

The Internal Revenue Service said in an email to tax professionals Friday that the Freedom of Information Act requires the IRS to release certain information about Preparer Tax Identification Number holders.

The manager of an H&R Block branch in Southern California has been charged with using the identities of his former tax preparation clients to file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a reminder to tax-exempt organizations not to include Social Security Numbers on publicly disclosed forms.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Sprint Nextel for over $300 million, accusing the wireless phone carrier of deliberately under-collecting and underpaying millions of dollars in New York state and local sales taxes on flat-rate access charges for wireless calling plans.

A Jersey City school teacher has been arrested by special agents working for the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division after he was charged with allegedly preparing fraudulent income tax returns for clients and failing to report some of the income he earned from preparing tax returns.

Texas-based accounting and consulting firms Whitley Penn and Null-Lairson have agreed to combine, effective May 1, expanding Whitley Penn’s presence across the Lone Star state.