Practice Management

More than 80 percent of large corporations have been offered incentives by a state or local economic official for a new development or corporate relocation, according to a new study by Bloomberg BNA.

KPMG has entered into an agreement with Towers Watson, a talent and human capital professional services organization, to acquire the company's Human Resources Service Delivery practice.

Senate Democrats have introduced legislation to make the Tax Code gender neutral in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month extending same-sex marriages to every state.

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

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department plan to amend the required minimum distribution regulations under Section 401(a)(9) of the tax code to address the use of lump sum payments to replace annuity payments being paid by a qualified defined benefit pension plan.

The IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service has developed several online tools to help taxpayers and employers estimate their tax credits and payments related to the Affordable Care Act.

Wealthy people have lots of ways to avoid the estate tax. But a federal judge says one family got a little too creative in dodging its tax bill.

The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Auditing Roundtable, Inc. have signed a merger agreement after more than a year of negotiations.

A tax strategy once used by the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies is attracting a new level of scrutiny from the IRS.

A scammer who organized a scheme in which taxpayers were threatened with calls purporting to come from the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI demanding payment has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.