Practice Management

A roundup of recent announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

The Internal Revenue Service is letting former students of a now-defunct for-profit college chain, Corinthian Colleges, to avoid including their forgiven student loan debts within gross income.

Accounting and consulting firm Dean Dorton Allen Ford, PLLC has expanded its presence in Kentucky by merging with Barr Anderson & Roberts, PSC, a CPA and advisory firm located in Lexington, Ky.

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

CohnReznick CEO Frank Longobardi discusses some of the major issues facing his firm, including recruiting and retaining employees, developing talent, and succession planning for partners who are retiring.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to make improvements in the way it assists victims of tax-related identity theft after a new government report says further improvements are needed.

CliftonLarsonAllen has merged in its third firm so far this week, announcing that Gottlieb, Flekier & Co., P.A. in Overland Park, Kan., has joined CLA, effective Dec. 1, 2015.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit released its annual report Thursday, as the group contends with a shrinking budget and recent controversy over its use of cell phone tracking technology.

Tax cheats can breathe a little easier. The gun-toting Internal Revenue Service investigators who send felons to prison are retiring in droves and there’s no one to replace them.

Most families aren’t tax professionals, and that’s why they come to you in the first place.