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April is National Financial Literacy Month, and in recognition of the importance of the topic New York-based CPA John Vento is partnering with members of Congress from the Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus to speak at high schools and universities in the New York metropolitan area.

Administering the 2010 health-care law is just like municipal snow shoveling—a top priority that’s non-negotiable, John Koskinen, the commissioner of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, said Wednesday.

The Senate Finance Committee voted to revive almost all of the 55 tax breaks that expired Dec. 31, providing benefits for wind energy, U.S.-based multinational corporations and motor sports track owners.

CCH announced that the latest version of its corporate sales and use tax solution Sales Tax Office has achieved certified integration with SAP applications.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a new revenue ruling that offers simplified safe harbor due diligence procedures that a retirement plan administrator can use in order to be deemed to have reasonably concluded that an amount was a valid rollover contribution for an individual retirement account.

The IRS is requesting membership nominations for the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee.

Check out the digital edition of the April 2014 issue of Accounting Today.

The European Parliament endorsed a draft agreement Thursday on legislation to open up the audit services market in the European Union beyond Big Four firms.

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

SilverSun Technologies announced that its wholly owned subsidiary SWK Technologies signed a letter of intent to acquire ESC Software, a reseller of Sage Software and Acumatica applications.