Practice Management

CCH plans to enhance its IntelliConnect research service with new filtering and interface features.

Accounting firm Citrin Cooperman plans to merge in Carrow Doyle & Associates at the beginning of November, expanding the New York-based firm’s presence in Pennsylvania.

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman had some news for CPAs gathered to hear him speak at an AICPA conference on Monday: high-income individuals are going to be in the agency’s cross-hairs now.

Democratic leaders of key House and Senate committees have introduced legislation to force foreign financial institutions, trusts and corporations to provide information about their U.S. account holders, grantors and owners.

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a gathering of CPAs that he had heard their concerns about the IRS requiring extra testing of CPAs who prepare taxes, and announced that the IRS would be expanding its probe of overseas income while targeting new enforcement efforts at high-wealth individuals.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new form that will make it easier to order tax transcripts and help process mortgage modification applications.

If someone said to me a decade ago that the ideas that tax planners use, some on a daily basis, might be violating a patent, I would have dismissed it as crazy talk.

The House Financial Services Committee has approved the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency by a vote of 39 to 29 to safeguard consumers against excessive credit card rate hikes, overdraft fees and predatory lending practices.

A new study by KPMG has found more governments worldwide imposing value-added taxes and goods and services taxes to make up for declining revenue from other sources, and warns the U.S. may follow suit.

The First-Time Homebuyer Credit program that kept the housing industry afloat this year also led to hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous claims.