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A district court in Hawaii has entered a final judgment against the chief executive of a religious-themed video game company, Left Behind Games, for a multimillion-dollar scheme to boost his company’s revenues with part of his stock-trading profits.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous tax preparers, citing preparers as one of the most common “Dirty Dozen” tax scams seen during tax season.

As many as 6 million U.S. taxpayers will have to pay a penalty of as much as 1 percent of income because they went without health insurance in part or all of 2014, the Treasury Department said.

The start of a new year always holds lots of possibilities. This year, we asked a handful of people what they think the top trends will be for accounting marketing. Here is what you should be watching and exploring in 2015.

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

Two thirds of accountants say that strategic planning and financial analysis are challenging for their business clients -- and many are turning to the cloud to help.

Like the advent of the Internet, social media has proliferated in everything we do.

The first five inspections of broker-dealer audit and new attestation engagements subject to PCAOB standards show deficiencies in the auditors' application of those standards.

An ongoing pilot program from the IRS is offering an Identify Protection Personal ID Number to taxpayers who filed federal returns last year in certain states.

The IRS has announced the new members of its Advisory Council and its Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee.