Practice Management

Among the themes that IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has emphasized since his swearing in is the balancing of the agency’s compliance function with its service mission.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue ruling permitting an employer that is using an accrual method of accounting to take a deduction in the current year for a fixed amount of bonuses payable to a group of employees, even though the employer does not know which of the employees will receive a bonus or the amount of any particular bonus until after the end of the taxable year.

Moss, Krusick & Associates has merged in the firm Dexter & Associates, expanding the firm’s presence in Orlando, Fla.

The Senate has approved a jobs bill that provides businesses with a tax credit for hiring unemployed veterans.

The Internal Revenue Service took the appropriate actions when an airplane piloted by an irate taxpayer crashed into one of its buildings in Austin, Texas last year.

The Republican leader of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee plans to hold a hearing to probe the efficacy of the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit in the aftermath of a report that found a disappointing number of small businesses taking advantage of the tax break in the health care reform law.

Let’s face it, the accounting industry is changing and related conferences need to do likewise. Some of them are, for sure, but there simply has to be more than the lure of CPE.

Mike Karlins, a partner at the Woodlands, Texas-based CPA firm Karlins & Ramey LLC, was recently accepted into membership of Construction Industry CPAs/Consultants Association by executive director John Corcoran in Chicago during CICPAC’s recent annual conference.

A bipartisan group of 10 senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would give states the option to collect the sales taxes they are owed under current law from out-of-state businesses, rather than rely on consumers to pay those taxes to the states.

The Internal Revenue Service has not collected delinquent taxes in a sampling of nearly half the past-due tax cases left over from its discontinued private debt collection program, according to a new government report.