Practice Management

  • The recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, relies heavily on new tax provisions in the Internal Revenue Code to implement many of the goals of health care reform. The effective dates for many of these tax provisions are delayed - some do not take effect until 2013, 2014 or even 2018.

    May 10
  • Mary Shaw has a shameful, shameful secret.

    May 10
  • Accounting firms that stay in motion are those that will continue to prosper.

    May 10
  • The Long Island-based firm of Grassi & Co. has had much success over the years. But like many firms seeking to drive market share in a constrained economy, they knew that developing larger opportunities is a different game in these days of heavy competition and price wars.

    May 10
  • SERVICE PROPOSES REGS ON PREPARER ID NUMBERS

    May 10
  • The Internal Revenue Service has opened examinations of over 30 colleges and universities as part of an ongoing investigation into the business activities of tax-exempt academic institutions.

    May 7
  • The majority of CFOs see state taxes increasing for their companies and believe that state and local tax compliance has become more demanding than federal tax compliance, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

    May 7
  • Sales and use taxes are key issues for many states that have been hit with dwindling revenue due to the economic downturn. And there’s a case now on appeal in a New York court that is being closely watched by other states suffering a loss of tax revenue from Internet sales.

    May 6
  • The American Institute of CPAs told Internal Revenue Service officials that it supports the IRS’s plan for mandatory preparer tax identification numbers and stricter ethics requirements, but it objects to the education and testing elements of the IRS’s tax preparer regulation proposals.

    May 6
  • The Internal Revenue Service is accepting applications for new members of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, which provides a forum for IRS officials to discuss key areas of tax administration with a broad range of tax and other relevant professionals.

    May 6