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The Consolidated Appropriations Act includes a surprising number of tax provisions, many of which had not been widely publicized until the final bill was up for a vote.

The changes wrought by the pandemic in ecommerce and much more will play out in the sales tax arena across 2021, according to Avalara's Liz Armbruester.

Almost two-thirds of practitioners said that pushing filing to July 15 last year was good for them.

The Small Business Administration issued some preliminary guidance on how a new federal program to provide help to hard-hit playhouses, movie theaters, museums and other venues will work.

As Black History Month begins, a number of prominent accounting organizations — including the AICPA, Illinois CPA Society, and the National Association of Black Accountants — have joined together in announcing a new yearlong diversity program.

The chairs of corporate audit committees want to hear more regularly from auditors, but they’re also concerned about “over-auditing” and “over-documentation,” according to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

There are many more checklists for accountants in the industry.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption in accounting, which has in turn been a boon to AI companies whose software has also been given a boost by the mass move to the cloud.

The European Union is seeking to overturn Apple Inc.’s victory in a 13 billion-euro ($15.7 billion) tax dispute, saying judges used “contradictory reasoning” when they found that the company’s Irish units weren’t liable for huge payments.

There’s debate within the administration about how to meet President Biden's promise to issue Americans another $1,400 each in stimulus checks.