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The Internal Revenue Service said its Central Authorization File system, which helps power its Transcript Delivery Service and Disclosure Authorizations systems, will be unavailable from December 26 through January 2.

House Speaker John Boehner offered to raise income tax rates on households earning more than $1 million a year in exchange for containing the cost of federal entitlement programs, as part of a deal with President Barack Obama to cut the federal deficit, according to two people familiar with the talks.

The IRS said that it issued more than nine out of 10 refunds to taxpayers in less than 21 days last year, and expects the same results in 2013.

A recently published academic paper asks the thorny question, “Should the forensic accounting profession be regulated?”

Only 57 percent of investors said their financial advisors proved their worth in navigating recent market conditions, according to a new report.

The International Federation of Accountants has released a document highlighting the best practices for business accountants to follow in terms of effective governance, risk management and internal control.

Organizations are struggling to understand the implications of environmental and social factors in their finances, operations and strategy, according to a new report from the Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project.

The idea that massive amounts of industry and customer data were mainly only utilized by large corporations and organizations may be a thing of the past, according to a new study commissioned by Intuit that found “big data” will be a vital component of small businesses over the next 10 years.

Hundreds of business leaders who are part of a trio of advocacy groups have signed a letter calling on Congress and President Obama to close corporate tax haven loopholes that cost the U.S. Treasury $100 billion a year.

As talks drag on between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, many business leaders believe there will not be an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff before the end of the year, according to a new poll by KPMG.