Practice Management

Thirty-one members of the House have signed a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner urging changes in the Internal Revenue Service’s proposed plan to regulate paid income tax return preparers.

The partners and associates of Washington state-based Michael R. Bell & Company, PLLC, have joined Wipfli LLP, an international CPA firm headquartered in Milwaukee, effective August 1, expanding Wipfli’s health care consulting practice.

IMGCAP(1)]Today many businesses, including accounting firms, have a sobering problem when it comes to older partners.

Eisner LLP and Amper Politziner & Mattia LLP reportedly plan to merge, expanding the two firms’ presence across New York and New Jersey.

Financial information company Sageworks Inc. has released an enhancement to Sageworks Counselor (formerly ProfitCents), designed to enable accountants to better advise clients on the steps they can take to overcome their current challenges, position themselves for future growth, and obtain additional funding.

A Canadian citizen was sentenced to nearly three years in a U.S. federal prison after he tried to deposit a $350,000 U.S. federal tax refund in a Washington State bank.

Consumer taxes for retail sales items, gas and cigarettes have all continued to climb in the past year, according to an annual survey of consumption taxes by CCH.

A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao and his business, Phoenix Financial Management Group, from preparing federal tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service could do more to encourage tax preparers to reduce the $345 billion tax gap, according to a new government report.

PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP has acquired Grant Thornton LLP’s Honolulu office.