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IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the IRS may re-open its voluntary disclosure program, offering a partial amnesty to tax evaders who have been hiding money in foreign bank accounts.

House Democrats met Thursday and overwhelmingly voted to block the Bush tax cut extension compromise announced earlier in the week by President Obama and Republican congressional leaders.

President Obama’s announcement on Monday of a compromise agreement with the Republican leadership should bring some end-of-year certainty to the tax landscape, but questions remain.

Marcum LLP plans to merge its China practice with Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP, one of the largest middle-market PCAOB-reviewed auditors in China, to create Marcum Bernstein and Pinchuk LLP.

Payroll and benefits outsourcing provider Paychex Inc. has acquired online payroll processor SurePayroll for an undisclosed amount.

The controversial WikiLeaks cache of hundreds of thousands of documents from the U.S. State Department has been yielding many surprises, despite protestations to the contrary.

Edward S. Karl, vice president of taxation for the American Institute of CPAs, will host the U.S. Small Business Administration’s year-end tax-planning Web chat on Thursday.

CCH and iLumen have signed a strategic partnership that will deliver iLumen’s decision analytics and business intelligence software to CCH customers across the country.

Areas with large African-American and Hispanic populations are subjected to Internal Revenue Service enforcement actions at double the rate of the general population, according to a new analysis.

CPA and business advisory firm ParenteBeard has merged in Huntingdon Valley-based Pressman Ciocca Smith effective December 1.