Practice Management

The Internal Revenue Service has added a revised Virtual Small Business Tax Workshop to its Web site with updated content, interactive features and a new reference section.

Intuit has created a Lacerte and ProSeries Tax Certification program that 1040 tax preparers can use to demonstrate their proficiency and firms can use to test their existing staff and find qualified job candidates.

New Jersey accounting firm Cullari, Gallo, Soojian, Carraba LLC has merged with Carrico Associates P.A.

Accounting and consulting firm Rehmann has combined with Cleveland-based Dawson Wealth Management, increasing the size of Rehmann’s wealth management practice to over $1 billion in assets under management.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to audit Harvard University and about 39 other colleges as part of an overall review of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service’s ability to detect fraudulent tax refund claims may have been weakened by a recent move to assign the task to a relatively inexperienced group of employees, according to a new report.

CPA and business advisory firm The Resnick Druckman Group has merged in New York-based practices, Sigmund Balaban & Co. and Gilbert, Wolff and Co., effective immediately.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its telephone assistance level, as well as its taxpayer service and enforcement functions, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service will be sending out newly redesigned, less confusing notices to taxpayers that aim to improve the way it corresponds with its core constituency.

Two former partners in the accounting firm Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Co., Andrew R. Lombardo and Matthew C. Wagner, are merging with J. Brian Stitcher, owner of the accounting firm SRM & Co., to form a new firm, Lombardo Wagner Stitcher and Co. LLC.