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President Obama urged the Republican-dominated Congress to move ahead on tax reform to lower taxes on middle-class families during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.

Accountants who offer business valuation services can bring in new business for their practices, although perhaps not as frequently as they would get from more familiar bread-and-butter services.

Working together with a number of agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, Interpol and local police departments, the IRS Criminal Investigation unit has helped bring to justice dozens of members of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The Internal Revenue Service began accepting electronically filed individual tax returns Tuesday, opening the tax season on time this year despite its latest budget crunch.

JMT Consulting Group is offering Accelerate grants toward the purchase of Abila MIP Fund Accounting software.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about QuickBooks and how we became the largest QB consultants in New Jersey along with receiving a few clients with very substantial fees. I’ve gotten some calls asking about them and what we did, so here is a description of three of them.

McGladrey chief economist Joe Brusuelas discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy this year, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Three New York residents, including one former IRS employee, have been indicted in federal court for defrauding the U.S. government by filing false claims for millions in false refunds.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to discourage U.S. corporations from merging with overseas companies to lower their tax bills in a strategy known as inversion that changes the company’s tax domicile.

The clawbacks on executive compensation mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act may discourage one type of accounting manipulation only to encourage another, according to a new study.