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Now that Labor Day has come and gone, back-to-school sales tax holidays are over for most consumers, but accountants still have to deal with reporting what’s taxable and what’s not.

Salaries for accountants are expected to increase next year by an average of 2.4 percent, according to a 2016 Salary Guide released Tuesday by the recruiting firm Accounting Principals.

Net fees at CPA firms and per-partner income grew this past year, according to the newly released Rosenberg Survey.

Top five reasons the corporate/partnership tax return was not filed until this week (Sept. 15) 1)   Still waiting on other CPA for an outside K1. 2)   Still waiting on information from business owner despite multiple calls, emails, and texts to move things along. 3)   Still waiting on partner to make a decision on how to handle a specific tax situation. (No additional information has been gathered or changed since March 15) …

Two-thirds of accounting, finance and business professionals believe regulation is having a significant or very significant impact on their organizations’ opportunities to grow and innovate, according to a new survey by the International Federation of Accountants.

Intuit released QuickBooks Accountant Desktop 2016, with new batch transaction, bill tracking and membership features.

The Internal Revenue Service did not finish testing a centralized data repository of health insurance coverage with federal and state exchanges in time for last tax season, according to a new government report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Bankrate and three of its former executives with accounting fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has gotten rid of a rarely used program that was supposed to allow taxpayers to expedite the appeals process.

An Internal Revenue Service auditor was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure after he allegedly assaulted a taxpayer he was auditing and threatened to close down her business if she didn’t cooperate.