Practice Management

Rosen Seymour Shapps Martin & Company LLP has been undergoing major changes as 13 of RSSM’s 24 partners have left in recent months to join other major firms in New York, Citrin Cooperman and WeiserMazars, including two former managing partners.

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

Have you ever wondered why your accounting firm lost out on a recent engagement? Do you get frustrated when clients show little interest in utilizing the firm’s additional services that are offered?

The Internal Revenue Service may have allowed approximately $167.7 million in questionable fuel tax credit claims between 2011 and 2013, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of Sept. 30, 2014, because of a continuing material weakness in internal control over unpaid tax assessments, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

A tax preparer in the Bronx, N.Y. has pleaded guilty to operating a $4.8 million Ponzi scheme and faces up to 11 years in prison.

The global tax services firm Ryan has signed an agreement to acquire another large tax services firm, WTP Advisors.

An Internal Revenue Service employee was arrested last week after knocking a woman unconscious at a Pittsburgh Steelers game and then trying to bribe several police officers to cover up the incident.

These five quotes were pulled directly from a random selection of CPA firm websites (if you go to your website, I bet something like this is on there too):

A former Internal Revenue Service agent in Houston who was fired for carrying a ritual dagger as an article of her Sikh religious faith has won a settlement with the federal government allowing her to bring it into federal buildings.