Practice Management

Ernst & Young has joined the U.S. State Department’s new E-Mentor Corps program to provide mentorship to entrepreneurs around the world.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected four new members of its Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities for the term starting in 2010 and ending in 2012.

Grant Thornton LLP has purchased the assets of Dallas-based information technology consulting and software firm Avalion Consulting LLC.

The two chairmen of recently united firms Mazars and Weiser LLP said they anticipate further expansion.

A long-awaited Senate energy and climate change bill is being introduced Wednesday by John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., with several tax provisions that would benefit nuclear power plants.

Thousands of nonprofit organizations could lose their tax-exempt status if they don’t file a Form 990 with the IRS by May 17.

CompuPay has acquired another payroll service company, Priority Payroll.

The Internal Revenue Service does not always properly authenticate the identity of taxpayers calling its toll-free assistance lines before providing them with confidential tax account information, according to a new government report.

Intuit Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Medfusion Inc., a Cary, N.C.-based patient-to-provider communications software developer, for approximately $91 million.

Tax accountants and others looking for clues on how the anti-tax Tea Party movement will affect this fall’s national elections received mixed signals from voters in a number of recent ballot initiatives.