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House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany, Jr., R-La., have written a letter to the advocacy group Democracy 21 asking it to provide all communications with the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit, Lois Lerner, including emails.

James Powers will succeed Charles Allen as Crowe Horwath LLP’s CEO. Powers will focus on continuing the expansion of the firm’s national footprint, service offerings and brand.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has released her mid-year report to Congress, in which she urges the Internal Revenue Service to issue refunds to victims of tax preparer fraud and expand the IRS’s recently announced voluntary tax preparer education program to include competency testing.

A group of senators has introduced a bipartisan bill governing sales taxes on online purchases and Internet access after previous legislation failed to make progress in the House.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut the Internal Revenue Service’s budget by $1.14 billion in another blow to the tax agency.

University of Phoenix and Intuit announced that QuickBooks Online has been integrated into the University of Phoenix School of Business’s accounting degree program.

Enterprise business planning technology provider Anaplan announced it has joined Deloitte’s Technology Alliances portfolio.

Net@Work announced the acquisition of Software Solutions, a consultant and reseller of Sage 100 ERP, Sage 500 ERP and Sage CRM that serves businesses in Virginia and Maryland.

Accountants need to make sure their clients' files are secure and stored away so they are not vulnerable to identity theft.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on truncated taxpayer identification numbers, or TTINs, to safeguard against identity theft.