Practice Management

RSM McGladrey and Axiom Solutions have signed an agreement to offer research and development tax credit services to companies.

There are a lot of very good research tools on the market. But what's available for the small practitioner who needs less than high-powered products?

It is the first publication on managing an accounting practice that I read that isn’t written like an explanation of the Internal Revenue Code and, more importantly, it is the very best that I have read on the subject.

The Internal Revenue Service said it would begin sending out more than 130 million economic stimulus payments in weekly installments starting May 2, with the distribution schedule based on the last two digits of the recipient's Social Security number.

The Senate has confirmed Douglas H. Shulman as the new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.

H&R Block has sold the mortgage loan-servicing business of its Option One Mortgage Corp. subsidiary to investor Wilbur Ross' private equity firm in a transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion.

Sage Software has updated its Sage FAS software with a service update to reflect the economic stimulus package recently enacted by Congress.

IRS IMPROVES ONLINE TAX TOOLSWashington, D.C. — The Internal Revenue Service has improved its online refund-tracking tool and tax information publication. The online version of Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax, now contains electronic links that allow users to navigate it more quickly. Both the downloadable PDF and HTML version contain more than 800 hyperlinks. The links allow users to jump immediately to other parts of the publication. The HTML version of Publication 17 on the IRS Web site, www.irs.gov, is also accessible to visually impaired taxpayers, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

This is not another article about great leadership characteristics. It’s about the weak and inept leaders and what firm partners need to do to change the current situations.Partners need to stop kidding themselves regarding the effect of weak leadership on their firms. Ineffective leaders do more harm than good. Now is the time to rise in arms and perhaps show weak and ineffective leaders the door.

The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on the Internal Revenue Service's performance so far this filing season, including a prediction that the IRS will lose hundreds of millions of dollars responding to calls about tax rebates.