Practice Management

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.

President Obama announced a deal Monday evening to extend the Bush-era tax rates for two years, as well as other tax breaks and unemployment benefits, after Republican and Democratic congressional leaders forged a compromise in meetings with administration officials.

Accounting firm Dixon Hughes has merged healthcare strategy consulting firm Charis Healthcare into its healthcare consulting practice.

The Internal Revenue Service is starting to tweet more than Ashton Kutcher, expanding the number of Twitter feeds it offers to taxpayers and the tax professional community.

The Senate failed on Saturday to overcome Republican-led opposition to two bills extending the Bush-era tax cuts to taxpayers making less than $250,000 and $1 million a year, prompting leaders to talk Sunday of progress toward a deal extending tax cuts for people at all income levels on a temporary basis, along with unemployment benefits.

Since last Thursday I've imagined a series of frightening scenarios and they go something like this: I receive this letter from the Internal Revenue Service charging that I have not paid taxes in years on rental income from a property I own in a tropical paradise.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final guidance for small employers eligible to claim the new small business health care tax credit for the 2010 tax year.

The Internal Revenue Service has announced new filing thresholds for next year for tax-exempt organizations filing Form 990 series returns.