Practice Management

CPA and business advisory firm RubinBrown has formed a new client niche, Life Sciences Services Group, and appointed Felicia Malter, CPA, as partner-in-charge.

IMGCAP(1)]Cold calling is much like my golf game: unpredictable with unmet expectations.

The Senate debated a bill on Monday that would give companies a two-year holiday from their share of Social Security payroll withholding for each employee they hire to replace a worker at a foreign-based facility.

Florida accounting firms Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund and Stogniew & Associates are combining, effective Oct. 1.

President Obama signed the Small Business Jobs Act into law on Monday, providing $12 billion in tax breaks and a $30 billion lending fund for small businesses.

The Internal Revenue Service said that individuals and businesses will no longer receive paper income tax packages in the mail.

Michigan accounting firms Lewis & Knopf CPAs PC, and Thomas R. Haggerty CPA PC have combined forces.

Senate Democrats plan to hold a vote on the Bush tax cuts extension soon after the mid-term election in November, congressional leaders indicated.

Moving into this year's year-end tax planning season, tax practitioners are faced with a considerable degree of uncertainty caused by congressional indecision. Not only does the uncertainty as this column goes to press surround whether a long list of extenders and small-business tax breaks will in fact apply retroactively to Jan. 1, 2010; it equally involves whether the massive EGTRRA '01 tax cuts, due to expire at the end of 2010, will be extended into 2011. Strategies to prepare for a probable change in the 2010 tax rate structure for 2011 are the focus of this present column, in part because the outcome is somewhat more predictable than the fate of the extenders and small-business relief, and in part because it may take more preparation for clients to make plans to meet the challenges of changed tax rates.

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