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When Apple Inc. was ordered by European regulators to pay $14.5 billion plus interest in back taxes to Ireland, the giant technology company seemed to be facing an expensive headache. Turns out it’s a headache for the U.S. Treasury Department as well.

Families who have been paying a babysitter or nanny over the summer to provide childcare may be able to cut back now that school is in session, but that doesn’t mean they can avoid the so-called “nanny tax.”

By my reckoning there are about 42,000 accounting firms in the United States, and 41,600 might be considered to be small.

Accounting firm Rea & Associates has acquired PMAgroup, an Ohio consulting firm that advises dentists on practice management, business development and succession planning.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, earned adjusted gross income of $113,026 in 2015 and paid $8,956 in federal income taxes, according to a copy of the Republican vice presidential nominee’s return that was released Friday—a move toward transparency that his running mate, Donald Trump, has yet to make.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of keeping track of the laptop computers issued to contractors, according to a new report.

Many dream of the day they can start their own business. For some CPAs, the leap to self-employment means a chance to set their own schedule and balance work and family on their own terms. For others, it’s about leaving a boss behind and taking the reins.

Practitioners weigh in on the need -- or lack thereof -- for a brick-and-mortar presence.

Raich Ende Malter & Co. LLP plans to combine with Stein deVisser & Mintz, P.C., effective Nov. 1, 2016, expanding REM’s presence in New York City.