Practice Management

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.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters is launching its first-ever series of federal tax eBooks, the first of which will be released on Friday.

President Obama held a news conference in which he sought to quell criticism from lawmakers from his own party of the deal he had struck with Republicans to preserve the Bush tax cuts even for upper-income earners for two more years.

The Internal Revenue Service has released proposed regulations that would reduce the application and renewal fees for enrolled agents and enrolled retirement plan agents from $125 to $30.

Lange & Associates, P.C., a Fort Worth public accounting and consulting firm, has acquired the practice of M. Dan King, CPA, also of Fort Worth, in a transaction effective November 1.

Cloud-based accounting software provider FinancialForce.com has agreed to acquire the PS Enterprise online professional services automation software owned by Appirio Inc., along with a small team behind it, and market the software to its customers.

Terrance “T.J.” Turner, director of income tax research at corporate income tax software developer Vertex, has been appointed to the IRS Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee.

Despite confusion created by recent and probable year-end tax legislation changes, the 2010 federal income tax environment is still quite favorable.