Practice Management

The Internal Revenue Service still has some work to do to strengthen the controls over its Electronic Authentication Process after criminals gained access to an estimated 724,000 taxpayer accounts through its online Get Transcript application last year, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service spent $12 million to subscribe to a Microsoft enterprise email system that it was ultimately unable to use, according to a new report.

Accounting firm management expert Gary Shamis is departing BDO USA LLP to found his own consultancy, Winding River Consulting, in Cleveland.

The United Arab Emirates is setting up a federal tax authority that will be in charge of collecting levies, as the oil-rich Gulf nation seeks to diversify its revenue base with value-added taxation.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Parsing the new partnership audit rules

Crowe Horwath has reached an agreement with Crowe GHP Horwath for the Denver accounting and consulting firm’s people and operations to join Crowe on Jan. 1, 2017.

Trump’s proposed tax plan could provide a short-term boost to the economy before costing more than 690,000 jobs over a decade, while Clinton’s plan could send job-creation in the opposite direction.

Hurricane Matthew victims in much of North Carolina and parts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida have until March 15 to file certain individual and business tax returns and make certain tax payments.

Tax professionals can earn CPE credits online through seminars filmed at the 2016 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums, the service announced.