Practice Management

Top 100 Firm Whitley Penn has agreed to merge with JonesBaggett LLP. The deal is slated to close on Nov. 1, 2014.

The IRS announced that professional tax preparers can now register for or renew their PTINs on IRS.gov.

A former UBS AG executive gave a primer on the workings of Swiss bank secrecy to a Florida jury hearing the tax-conspiracy trial of Raoul Weil, who once ran the bank’s global wealth-management business.

As a manager at a CPA firm, I am constantly looking to expand my network in search of developing new opportunities for my firm.

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

Creating a Chief Growth Officer or Chief Marketing Officer position is the trend among larger professional services firms today. It’s a good idea for yours, too.

The Internal Revenue Service paid approximately $33 million for paper tax records storage services in fiscal year 2013, and as of March 2014, and the agency had 5.42 million cubic feet of paper tax records stored at various Federal Records Centers across the country, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always follow its own internal procedures for undelivered tax lien notices, according to a new government report.

Raoul Weil, once the head of UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, didn’t know that “rogue” underlings were helping Americans evade taxes, his lawyer told jurors at the start of a trial in Florida.

AbbVie Inc. may scrap or renegotiate its planned 32.4-billion-pound ($51.5 billion) deal for Dublin-based drugmaker Shire Plc, in what would be the biggest casualty of the U.S. crackdown on so-called tax inversions.