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A former Internal Revenue Service employee has been sentenced to 105 months in prison and ordered to pay $30,649 in restitution after pleading guilty to identity theft and theft of government property.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service has redesigned its educational Web site for tax-exempt organizations, with a new look and improved navigation.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service offered advice to taxpayers and preparers about a new form they will need to use to report most capital gains and losses from transactions relating to investment property.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service has informed a small business advocacy group that it will not require businesses to reconcile their gross receipts with the merchant card transactions reported on the new 1099-K information reporting form.
February 10 -
Burr Pilger Mayer and Windes & McClaughry have canceled their plans for a merger, saying Friday they could not come to an agreement on the terms.
February 10 -
Swiss bank UBS sought to distance itself from a U.S. investigation of rival Swiss private banks on Thursday, saying that it did not hand over data on rival banks directly to U.S. officials when it settled a U.S. crackdown on taxpayers holding secret offshore accounts two years ago.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax preparers that they need to complete 15 hours of continuing education, starting this year, under new requirements, and has posted a list of approved providers.
February 10 -
The IRS effort to combat identity theft couldn’t have come at a better time. With the IRS closing in on its goal of 80 percent e-filed returns (aided in part by the e-filing mandates on return preparers), the last thing it needs is a decline in confidence in the system. Yet that’s just what has happened, according to a survey commissioned by tax software developer Taxsoftware.com.
February 9 -
Michigan-based CPA and wealth advisory firm Godfrey Hammel, Danneels & Company and Indiana-based CPA firm Katz, Sapper & Miller have teamed up to form GHD/KSM Medical Consultants to provide financial, accounting, tax and business advisory services to health and medical industry clients.
February 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance and forms that can be used to claim a recently expanded tax credit for employers who hire veterans, with newly streamlined certification requirements.
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