Practice Management

MayerMeinberg LLP has expanded its Long Island-based firm by merging in Ackerman & Associates LLC in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

KPMG International said Monday that its member firms around the world achieved a total of $22.7 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2011.

Business assurance technology provider ACL Services Ltd. is expanding into the electronic work papers market with the acquisition of Workpapers.com.

McGladrey Technology Solutions, the technology services arm of the major CPA firm, has partnered with the American Institute of CPAs’ marketing arm, CPA2Biz, to identify and build integrated, add-on applications for CPA2Biz’s Web-based outsourced finance and accounting services technology.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired San Francisco-based Web design company Emochila for an undisclosed sum.

The Internal Revenue Service released on Friday the optional standard mileage rates that business taxpayers can use in 2012 to figure the deductible costs of operating a vehicle for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes, and for the most part they have not changed a great deal.

House Republicans introduced their version of a payroll tax cut extension bill on Friday, a day after competing Republican and Democratic versions of payroll tax cut legislation failed for the second time to advance in the Senate.

A pro-business lobbying group is disputing the claims in a recently released report that found some of the most profitable corporations avoiding billions of dollars in state taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has signed a $6.25 million contract with the SAS Institute to use the company’s analytical software to help it identify tax evasion and fraud as part of the agency’s Return Review Program.

CCH has given users of the Comtax system access to its World Tax Treaties information through CCH’s IntelliConnect research service.