Practice Management

Sage North America has introduced its Sage ACT! 2012 contact and customer manager, along with Sage ACT! Connect, which integrates with Google applications.

How would you define your personal brand? What is a personal brand?

The biggest draw to joining a firm network or association is the other member firms and the expertise and geographical reach that they can provide.

On Aug. 5, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service issued long-awaited (and much-needed) guidance on the treatment of basis for estates of decedents who died in 2010 that elect not to have the estate tax apply. The IRS also issued guidance for those making the election on the allocation of the generation-skipping transfer tax exemption.

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The Internal Revenue Service provided guidance in late August on the only ways to establish prima facie evidence of delivery of documents that have a filing deadline prescribed by the tax laws when there is not direct proof of the actual delivery.

DRAKE BUYS COPANION

The Senate Finance Committee asked a series of corporate executives about whether they could accept the loss of some corporate tax breaks in exchange for lower overall business tax rates.

As companies' tax reporting responsibilities have become more complicated and voluminous, vendors have developed tax software applications to address much more than just the annual income tax return.

IMGCAP(1)][IMGCAP(2)]In the last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped by more than 10 percent, and that significant change has investors and market participants on edge, concerned with what stock market volatility will do next and what repercussions it will have on the economy more generally.