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The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit needs to improve its search and seizure warrant process to ensure that the evidence it seizes is properly secured and controlled, according to a new government report.

Years of budget cuts are having a negative impact on the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to collect delinquent taxes, according to a new government report.

On Monday, Jeff Phillips, CEO of accounting careers website Accountingfly, addressed GroPro 2014 on how to best handle modern-day recruiting for the accounting profession. His presentation, entitled "Recruit Like the Big Four," emphasized a larger focus on investing in technology and talent in hiring top-notch candidates.

Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, was cleared at trial of tax conspiracy despite the bank’s historic admission in 2009 that it helped thousands of U.S. clients abuse Swiss bank secrecy to cheat the Internal Revenue Service.

Shamberg brings nearly two decades of experience serving clients in a range of international, federal, and state and local tax planning and controversy matters.

Accounting Today presented the Best Accounting Firms to Work For awards at its annual Growth & Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla., on Monday.

Top 100 Firm Wipfli LLP added Assurity River Group to the firm. Upon completion of the acquisition, Assurity’s associates will join Wipfli’s Risk Advisory and Forensics Services Practice.

On Monday, the second day of events at the 5th Annual Growth + Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla., Peter Burke, President of Best Companies Group gave the first of three presentations on key lessons taken from Accounting Today’s “Best Firms to Work For.”

The EntryPoint team will join KPMG’s Trade and Customs Practice enabling KPMG to provide both regulatory and technology consulting under one umbrella.

I’ve been around a long time and did some really great things. I’ve also made some mistakes. The mistakes linger on my mind more than many of the great things, and I am sharing some of the mistakes here.