Practice Management

CCH has added Smart Charts, checklists and decision trees to its Business Entity Planning Library to provide further guidance to tax practitioners analyzing and comparing the entities used by small- and midsized businesses.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has disallowed a “midco” tax shelter, becoming the first appellate court to disallow one.

Accounting firm WebsterRogers LLP has signed a deal to combine its Mergers & Acquisitions Group with Sequence Investment Partners, a licensed broker-dealer.

Government tax authorities around the world are requiring multinational companies to provide more documentation to support their transfer pricing strategies as countries seek additional tax revenue.

The Internal Revenue Service has published its list of recipients of matching grants for its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, and not surprisingly it omits the controversial community organizing group ACORN.

CCH’s Tax Prep Partner series has expanded to cover nonprofit, estate tax and payroll forms.

Sikich LLP has entered into a merger agreement with the accounting, tax, business consulting, litigation support and business valuation practice of Sleeper Disbrow Morrison Tarro & Lively LLC in Decatur, Ill.

Yacht broker Robert Moran has been sentenced to two months in prison on tax fraud charges, making him the third former UBS client to be sentenced to prison in South Florida in the past two weeks.