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Last week, much of the media fawned over the president'sfirst 100 days in office to such a degree it's a wonder outlets such as the NewYork Times or MSNBC did not require its reporters to don drool bibs.

Sixty-one percent of senior financial executives believe their companies’ total effective state tax rate will increase, according to a survey by Grant Thornton.

CPA firm Dixon Hughes plans to integrate the practice of Presser, Lahnen & Edelman effective June 1, expanding the super-regional Southeast firm to the Jacksonville, Fla., area.

A Southern California couple has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to file false tax returns, mail fraud and identity theft after they were found to have filed for refunds of over $300,000 using stolen identities.

A record total of 90.6 million tax returns were filed electronically this year, with more than a third coming from home computers.

Both the House and Senate approved President Barack Obama’s $3.4 trillion spending plan on his 100th day in office, but largely along party lines.

Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., has introduced a bill to lessen the heavy penalties imposed by the Internal Revenue Service on taxpayers who use so-called “listed” tax shelter transactions.

A tax preparer couple has been arrested for filing false tax returns and diverting their clients’ refund money to their own bank accounts.

It seems almost obligatory to write a story about the 100th day of the Obama administration, but when you’re in the news business, you ignore these kinds of artificial milestones at your own peril.

Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz told a news conference that he had talked with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner over the weekend about dropping a case against UBS over its tax shelters in return for signing a new tax treaty between the two nations.