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The Internal Revenue Service says employers can now do a trial run of their electronic form filing for reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act, giving nervous employers and their benefit advisers a way to test for readiness in advance of the reporting deadlines.

The pace of new hiring for accounting and finance jobs is expected to hit its highest level this year during the fourth quarter within certain markets, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service cannot readily identify American citizens and resident aliens working in a foreign country, along with resident aliens working in the United States, who may have improperly claimed exemption from U.S. Social Security taxes, according to a new report.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission calling on the SEC to require internal audit functions for all publicly traded companies.

A newly released survey from the AICPA found that college students who rated themselves as having "excellent" or "good" personal financial management skills (57 percent) outweighed those who rated their skills as poor or terrible (12 percent) by a more than a five-to-one margin. However, almost half of college students (48 percent) reported having less than $100 in their bank account at some point in the last year.

The IRS reports that it processed 140,024,061 returns from last season through July 30.

Leaders in the profession share their success (or lack thereof) in attaining work-life balance

The Securities and Exchange Commission will be poring over the comments it received on its recent proposal to toughen audit committee disclosures after the comment deadline expired Tuesday.

The Tax Court sided with a taxpayer who failed to get a petition protesting a tax lien delivered in time to the Tax Court’s own offices because of a federal holiday and a winter snowstorm that closed the offices.

The Internal Revenue Service is making changes to a program that aims to combat tax delinquency by over 300,000 current and retired federal employees who owe more than $3 billion in taxes.