Practice Management

The crime of stealing tax refunds through identity theft is “no longer exploding,” U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen said yesterday.

Top 100 Firm BDO USA LLP has made a major expansion in the Midwest with the addition of more than 375 staff, including 36 partners, from SS&G Inc and its SS&G Parkland subsidiary.

CPAs are expanding the range of specialties and advisory services they are offering clients, according to Carl Peterson, vice president of small firm interests at the American Institute of CPAs.

Taxpayers with undisclosed foreign assets face an even greater risk of detection than ever before.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice warning that some employer-sponsored health plans will need to provide better coverage for in-patient hospitalization services to qualify as minimum coverage.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit needs to improve its search and seizure warrant process to ensure that the evidence it seizes is properly secured and controlled, according to a new government report.

Years of budget cuts are having a negative impact on the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to collect delinquent taxes, according to a new government report.

Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, was cleared at trial of tax conspiracy despite the bank’s historic admission in 2009 that it helped thousands of U.S. clients abuse Swiss bank secrecy to cheat the Internal Revenue Service.

Top 100 Firm Wipfli LLP added Assurity River Group to the firm. Upon completion of the acquisition, Assurity’s associates will join Wipfli’s Risk Advisory and Forensics Services Practice.

The EntryPoint team will join KPMG’s Trade and Customs Practice enabling KPMG to provide both regulatory and technology consulting under one umbrella.