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Hal Hicks cleared his throat and addressed a roomful of peers in a midtown Manhattan auditorium. The topic: the tax-avoidance technique called inversion, in which a U.S. company claims a foreign legal address.

The best prepared accounting firms manage to be more productive and profitable, according to a new study by Wolters Kluwer CCH.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Wolters Kluwer, CCH Small Firm Services and the National Association of Tax Professionals have teamed to offer ATX and TaxWise preparer customers varied tax-compliance education.

Two of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

A CPA from Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to serve over a year in prison and a year of supervised release for helping the owners of the Cadillac Ranch restaurant chain evade taxes.

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service by over 40 conservative groups over the IRS’s handling of their applications for tax-exempt status.

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

Swiss banks seeking to avoid U.S. prosecution by disclosing how they helped Americans evade taxes asked the Justice Department this week to back off a dozen demands, including that they cooperate with other nations.

Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, referred to accounts hidden by U.S. clients from the Internal Revenue Service as “toxic waste,” a witness at his tax-conspiracy trial said.