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A roundup of recent hires, promotions, awards and other personnel news from firms across the country.

If you’re in the tax preparation business, chances are you’ve had a client experience tax-related identity theft.

Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has updated its Taxpayer Returns online tool with data through filing year 2014.

Fees are the fuel that keeps your practice running, yet many preparers hesitate to shake up fee structures no matter what those structures depend on.

The Internal Revenue Service has updated its venerable tax guide for this tax season.

Intuit announced a new automatic mileage tracking feature in its QuickBooks Self-Employed solution for independent contractors.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has amended the converged revenue recognition standard it developed with the International Accounting Standards Board to add more guidance about principal versus agent considerations.

In a media blitz last October, the billionaire investor Carl Icahn pledged to create a $150 million political organization to muscle an overhaul of the corporate tax code through a gridlocked Congress.

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

Although a recent ABC News/Washington Post Poll found just 6 percent of voters who lean Republican and 4 percent of those who lean Democrat rank taxes as the most important issue impacting their vote, one in five public company tax directors feel differently.