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An Internal Revenue Service employee has been suspended for 100 days without pay for urging taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012.

More than one accounting firm thinks BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) should be relabeled BYOH (Bring Your Own Headache).

The majority of attendees at a roundtable discussion Thursday in Washington, D.C., on enhancing the ethics standards for accountants favored changes by the International Ethics Standards Board of Accountants to permit reporting of illegal acts.

The trend is up in the business-for-sale marketplace, according to the latest BizBuySell survey of business brokers.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate are advancing dueling measures today that would provide a short-term cash infusion through May 2015 to a fund covering the federal share of road, bridge and mass-transit projects.

The American Institute of CPAs is offering a new, free newsletter called Inclusion Solutions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun sending letters to public companies that fail to file their financials with all the necessary data using Extensible Business Reporting Language technology.

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

New Jersey Society of CPAs CEO and executive director Ralph Thomas discusses the need for greater diversity in accounting firms, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The real estate investment trust Ventas has dismissed Ernst & Young as its auditor after E&Y determined that it lacked independence because of an “inappropriate personal relationship” between an E&Y partner and Ventas’s former chief accounting officer and controller.