Practice Management

Harper, Van Scoik & Co. is merging with Carr, Riggs & Ingram, the fourth largest accounting firm in the Southeast, expanding the combined firms' services in the Tampa Bay area.

A new Web site uses a financial modeling program to calculate a user's taxes under either of the major presidential candidates.

The House has passed a fix for the alternative minimum tax to keep it from spreading to more taxpayers next year, as well as a separate bill to provide tax relief to businesses and families affected by natural disasters.

A group advocating the First Amendment right of pastors to endorse political candidates plans to stage a protest this Sunday encouraging clergymen to defy the rules governing tax-exempt organizations.

Under pressure from Congress and the IRS, H&R Block has decided that 100 percent of its tax products and services, including its TaxCut software, will now include free federal electronic filing.

The Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that helps more children leave foster care and join permanent families, while clarifying the definition of a child for tax purposes.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting has acquired CI Consultancy Limited, an Irish developer of operational risk control systems for financial institutions and corporations.

A study of both presidential candidates' tax plans finds that they will both reduce millions of taxpayers' liability to zero.

The Internal Revenue Service intends to auction the Web site and domain name of DoctorTalk.com, an e-commerce site the IRS seized that provides vitamin products for sale.

DHL Express and Procter & Gamble have both filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service in recent weeks demanding the agency return money they claim is owed to them.