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The Internal Revenue Service is trying to decide whether it should make so-called “soft notices” a permanent part of its automated program for encouraging more voluntary compliance by taxpayers.

House Republican whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in an editorial Monday that his party will resist any income tax increases in Congress, as the expiration of the Bush tax cuts looms at the end of the year.

Taxpayers stuck in the current economic downturn will get at least some relief in 2011 thanks to the mandatory upward inflation-adjustments called for under the Tax Code, according to CCH

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel should improve the timeliness of the private letter rulings it issues and reduce the number of rulings issued, recommended a new government report.

WebCPA and Accounting Today’s parent company SourceMedia has signed a strategic partnership with iLumen to offer a new online resource that will allow CPAs and other accounting professionals to monitor the financial performance of their business clients through an automated client analytics and business intelligence portal.

The Treasury Department said that it has reached the milestone of processing its one-billionth electronic tax payment through its Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.

Positions have hardened on the subject of tax preparer registration and the proposed regulations slated to become final before the program of registering for preparer tax identification numbers begins.

Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, one of Alabama's largest CPA and business consulting firms, has entered into a long-term recordkeeping and third-party administration service engagement with Dallas-based financial services firm, ISC Group Inc.

A federal grand jury has indicted the owner and former owner of a Hawaiian car dealership, along with their CFO, accountant and others, for tax fraud.

The Senate approved legislation on Thursday that would provide $12 billion in tax breaks to small businesses, along with a $30 billion lending fund.