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CCH has introduced a new tax planning tool to help tax advisors and their clients keep a step ahead of the fiscal cliff negotiations in Congress and the White House.

More than half of accountants are seeing their business owner clients making changes in their businesses as a result of the uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff, according to a new survey by the financial information company Sageworks.

Losses due to fraud are estimated to increase 20 percent during the U.S. holiday season, according to a new survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

A pair of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House to end a 78-year-old tax provision that includes dividends from controlled foreign corporations in personal holding company income.

The International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators has released a global survey of audit inspection findings, identifying some of the most common problems that regulators have identified at auditing firms around the world during their inspections.

ConnectWise, a Tampa, Fla.-based software developer for IT service providers, VARs, ISVs and MSPs, is celebrating the season by donating holiday gifts and meals to local children and families in need through the nonprofit Success 4 Kids & Families.

Effective end-of-year letters and other communication with tax prep clients are more than reminders that those clients should hire you to do 2012 returns.

Wayne Salpietro, director of product and social media marketing at data storage and cloud backup services provider Permabit Technology Corp., explains what processes can be adopted to ensure data protection strategies deployed at your organization remain viable.

John Wiley & Sons has released the latest version of J.K. Lasser’s venerable tax guide, a reference book that has assisted millions of taxpayers, not to mention tax preparers.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that House Republicans would introduce a bill to raise tax rates for millionaires as a “Plan B” in case his negotiations with President Obama on averting the fiscal cliff fail to produce an agreement.