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A Senate committee held a hearing Wednesday to discuss legislation requiring Internet retailers to charge their out-of-state customers sales taxes.

An Arizona accountant who pleaded guilty to preparing a false tax return was sentenced to three years’ probation.

Jeremy Migliara joins the firm’s State and Local Tax Group

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Wednesday on tax reform and the tax treatment of different business entities such as pass-through S corporations and C corporations.

Owings Mills, Md.-based CPA and business consulting firm Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn recently sent volunteers to the International Book Bank warehouse in Baltimore to sort more than 15,000 books in four hours.

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a session on Thursday to mark up an extenders bill for the dozens of tax break provisions that expired at the end of 2011, or that will expire at the end of this year.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a release to provide information to audit committees about its inspection process and how they might use the inspection reports to question their auditing firms.

Employment in the private sector increased by 163,000 in July, with gains in businesses of all sizes, according to payroll giant ADP.

Audit and compliance technology maker ACL Services Ltd. and global information optimization software and service provider Datawatch Corporation formed a strategic alliance that will help provide audit, risk and compliance professionals with the ability to analyze data trapped in PDFs, HTML files, print files and other content-rich data sources.

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