Practice Management

One of the dilemmas facing many accountants and tax preparers this tax season is the problem of how to account for uncertain tax positions and deal with them on the IRS’s new Schedule UTP.

CBIZ MHM LLC has formed a national specialty practice group focused on forensic services, bankruptcy and valuation.

The Internal Revenue Service has been investigating and helping prosecute a number of tax preparers in Southern California who have been cheating the government and their clients.

The Internal Revenue Service has posted a final version of the form and instructions for the 2010 gift tax and generation-skipping transfer tax.

Two brothers who owned a California trucking company involved with drug traffickers have received prison sentences for attempting to bribe an IRS revenue officer in exchange for lowering their taxes.

Sage North America partner BrainSell Technologies continued its acquisition growth plans with the purchase of Soft Intelligence Inc., a Roswell, Ga.-based point of sale and enterprise resource planning reseller.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is pressing the Internal Revenue Service to do more to curb tax fraud by prison inmates, especially in his state, where the problem is the most prevalent.

Online tax preparation site Taxbrain has introduced a service that lets taxpayers ask questions or have their taxes prepared by CPAs and enrolled agents through a video chat link.

The North Carolina Department of Revenue is pointing to inaccurate information from the IRS as the reason why it sent tax due notices to up to 2,000 state taxpayers.

A group of citizen militia members have been arrested and charged with conspiring to murder a federal judge and an IRS employee, along with weapons and explosives charges.