Practice Management

JHI, a global network of independent accounting, business advisory, and financial consultancy firms, is now being managed by CMA Association Management, as of Jan. 4.

Florida accounting firm Kauffman, Rossin & Co. has brought on board the team from Ft. Lauderdale-based London Witte & Co.

A former Internal Revenue Service employee has pleaded guilty to one count of receiving a bribe.

A San Fernando tax preparer has pleaded guilty to charges that she filed false tax returns and stole her clients’ refund checks.

A UBS banking client who pleaded guilty to concealing $6.1 million in secret Swiss bank accounts has been sentenced to five years’ probation, even as the whistleblower who helped expose the UBS tax evasion scheme is set to begin a prison term Friday.

The Internal Revenue Service said new user fees now apply to exemption applications for tax-exempt organizations, ruling requests and other matters for 2010.

Publishing software provider Quark has introduced a new Web-to-print service for small businesses, including accounting practices.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson said the IRS needs to do better than answering only 71 percent of the calls it receives from taxpayers, and it should stop filing tax liens against people who don’t have the ability to pay.

California accounting firms Macias Gini & O’Connell and Bernstein, Fox, Whitman, Goldman & Baumblatt LLP have combined forces.

San Diego wealth management firm Rowling, Dold & Associates has joined Moss Adams Wealth Advisors, the wealth management division of accounting firm Moss Adams.