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The House Judiciary Committee, through its Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, held a hearing Tuesday on nexus issues involving three bills before the Committee.

The Supreme Court has turned away a request for judicial review from a 55-year-old CPA who sued Baylor Law School for age discrimination after the school rejected his application.

As expatriate taxpayers face increasing difficulties from implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the Internal Revenue Service is offering YouTube videos and other online resources to assist taxpayers overseas.

Chris Rush of ADP describes some of the latest products and services that ADP is offering for accountants, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

On Tuesday, EY announced a significant expansion to its EY Scholars Master’s Program, awarding 53 students from across the country the opportunity to participate in this year’s program. The program covers up to 100% of tuition and fees for each student’s master’s degree program, providing a group of underrepresented interns the opportunity to continue their education and succeed in the growing professional services industry.

Chris Rush of ADP discusses the changing demographics, technology and regulation in the accounting profession and how firm leaders can deal with succession planning, recruitment, retention, cloud computing, and the Affordable Care Act, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Tax Court has held in favor of a taxpayer who claimed a whistleblower award that the Internal Revenue Service wanted to reject because the whistleblower had brought the information directly to an IRS operating division before filling out paperwork requesting an award from the IRS Whistleblower Office.

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

A trade association representing the casino industry is sounding the alarm over proposed regulations from the Internal Revenue Service that would lower the threshold for reporting winnings from slot machines, keno and bingo.

Deloitte’s new global CEO Punit Renjen took the reins this week as the new CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, also known as Deloitte Global, and defined the global organization’s priorities.