Practice Management

House Republicans blocked the Senate’s two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and emergency unemployment benefits on Tuesday, setting up a confrontation between the two chambers.

The American Institute of CPAs has introduced a set of Interactive Tax Checklists to help practitioners prepare clients’ returns.

Document management software provider Doc.It is now offering the Doc.It .Net Client Portal, which allows firms and their clients to securely send and receive documents and files of any size.

Ninety-two percent of financial professionals believe that businesses will either maintain their current employee headcount or increase their employee count in 2012, according to a survey of U.S. accounting firms.

Paid tax return preparers will need to file a due diligence checklist with all claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit starting January 1, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday.

The Internal Revenue Service saved about $14.19 million by not mailing out tax form packages this year, but the elimination of the mailings increased the burden on approximately 6 million taxpayers who needed to obtain the forms themselves, according to a new government report.

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Deloitte has added Skura Business Intelligence Group to its Canadian firm, expanding the firm’s analytics capabilities.

The Internal Revenue Service has approved the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and NASBA’s National Registry of CPE Sponsors as the first organizations to receive qualified accrediting status to provide continuing education as part of the IRS’s Registered Tax Return Preparer program.

Porte Brown LLC has acquired Meador Stratton LLP, expanding the Chicago-area accounting firm’s footprint to Indiana.