Practice Management

A federal court in Kansas City, Mo, has permanently barred Missouri lawyer A. Blair Stover Jr. from promoting a variety of improper tax schemes.

Eide Bailly has merged in R T Higgins & Associates, expanding the firm’s presence in Colorado and with oil and gas industry clients.

The Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act of 2010 is basically a bailout for states that are living beyond their means and have problems meeting their payrolls.

An IRS official repeatedly reassured an audience of tax preparers that the agency isn’t aiming to take away their livelihoods or weed out people when its new registration, testing, education and e-file requirements take effect next tax season.

The number of corporate returns processed annually by the Internal Revenue Service fell 7 percent between January 2005 and December 2009, from almost 2.2 million to approximately 2 million, according to a new government report.

IMGCAP(1)]It’s no secret that taxing jurisdictions across the country are suffering from the economic downturn, and are anxious to close the tax gap.

Sean Saari, a member of Skoda Minotti’s Business Valuation and Litigation Group, has received the 2010 Jeffrey R. Salins Report Writing Award from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.

BKD has acquired Grant Thornton’s hospital and health care auditing practice in Wichita, Kansas.

Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has died at the age of 82.

In the midst of their August recess, House lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill to vote to approve legislation to provide $26 billion in aid to states to avoid teacher layoffs and Medicaid cuts, paid for in part by clamping down on foreign tax credits.