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An Internal Revenue Service employee has been indicted for embezzling nearly $4,000 in taxpayer payments to the IRS.

President Obama urged Republicans in Congress to agree on a compromise on the soon-to-expire tax cuts, even as the prospects for an agreement remained uncertain.

Understandably buried beneath the news of last Tuesday'sRepublican onslaught in the House and to a lesser degree the Senate came thelatest earnings release from mortgage concern Freddie Mac.

Jeffrey M. Weiner joined Marcum in 1981 and has served as managing partner since 1990. Under his leadership, the firm has expanded from a one-office firm of 20 employees to a 21-office firm that now ranks in the top 15 in the United States, the top four in the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest firm on Long Island.

The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Chicago to permanently bar tax lawyer John E. Rogers, a former partner at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, from promoting tax shelters.

Whether you’re happy, sad or indifferent with the election results on Tuesday, elections do have consequences and will affect all of us. Especially tax preparers.

CBIZ and its affiliated accounting firm Mayer Hoffman McCann have acquired Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp, expanding the firm’s presence in Florida.

Major Sage reseller and technology consultant Net@Work has gone fully nationwide with its acquisition of Seattle-based Forepoint LLC.

Six Texas-based CPAs won elections on Tuesday for seats ranging from the U.S. House of Representatives to the Texas Railroad Commission, while other CPAs around the country both won and lost.

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