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A new company aims to match up accounting contractors with potential employers.

Wednesday was a red-letter day for many accounting departments, as December 19 was the busiest day for submitting expense reports.

CPAs in New York State are not expecting business conditions in the state to improve next year.

IRS Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller warned Congress on Wednesday that if lawmakers fail to extend the traditional alternative minimum tax patch, up to 100 million American taxpayers could be affected, and most taxpayers might not be able to file their tax returns until late March 2013 or later.

PwC’s Dallas office partnered with the Dallas Mavericks for a third year to plant “Trees for Threes,” a program that’s part of the basketball team’s Guard the Planet initiative.

Only 10 percent of former business owners were highly satisfied with the process of selling their company, and 54 percent were dissatisfied, according to a new survey by the accounting firm Rothstein Kass.

Americans for Tax Reform, the Grover Norquist-led lobbying group that asks politicians to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, and then holds them to it, has given its seal of approval to the “Plan B” that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has proposed for raising taxes only on millionaires, in case he and President Obama are unable to reach an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff.

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Payroll service provider Paychex has provided a list of five tax benefits that small businesses, and their accountants, should consider before the end of the year.

Rich Rotstein LLP has agreed to merge with Collins Barrow Toronto.