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The Internal Revenue Service did not always follow established procedures when trying to collect taxes from taxpayers who had declared bankruptcy, according to a new government report.

U.S. business executives are concerned about global competitiveness in light of the disparity between tax rates charged to their overseas competitors and the rates they are charged as U.S. corporations.

The members of the American Board of Forensic Accounting, the advisory board behind the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute’s Certified Forensic Accountant credential, have unanimously resigned amid questions about the legitimacy of the credential and the organization behind it.

The American Institute of CPAs announced the winners of the 2013 Elijah Watt Sells Award, given to candidates passing and obtaining above a certain score on all four sections of the Uniform CPA exam.

CPA2Biz and ITA announced that they will be co-locating their respective conferences Dec. 7-10 at the National Gaylord in Washington, D.C.

Pamela Wickes, the director of forensic accounting at Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte, has been named to the Business Review’s 40 Under Forty Class of 2014.

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

More than 27 million taxpayers have filed their tax returns from their home computers so far this tax season, an increase of almost 6 percent compared to last year.

U.S. CFOs’ confidence in the U.S. economy increased more than 10 percent in the first quarter of the year, reaching a two-year high, according to a new survey by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business.

Business travel is on the rise once again, with more than half of companies reporting that they spent more on business travel last year than they did the previous year, according to a new survey.