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CPA and business advisory firms Bartolomei Pucciarelli and Ballezzi & Associates have merged, effective immediately.

Who says publishing is dead? KPMG has launched a new e-magazine, Tax Dispute Resolution Quarterly, to help corporate taxpayers keep up with news and developments in the tax dispute arena.

With concerns mounting over the upcoming Presidential election and the Eurozone crisis, CFOs are tempering their optimism about economic growth and relying more on temporary employees in their hiring plans.

Now that the payroll tax cut extension is safely out of the way, the latest tax legislation gambit in Congress appears to be a tongue-in-cheek effort to provide an annual $250 tax deduction for people with mustaches.

The American Institute of CPAs told the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board at a hearing Tuesday that the IRS needs to improve its correspondence audit program to lessen the burden on taxpayers.

Less than a week after calling off a planned merger with Eide Bailly, Wipfli said Tuesday that the partners and associates of Wisconsin-based Tobin & Associates have joined the firm.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new rules aimed at safeguarding investors from identity theft by requiring broker-dealers, mutual funds and other SEC-regulated entities create programs to detect and respond to “red flags” indicating possible identity theft.

Robbie Narcisse, vice president of global ethics and business practices for Pitney Bowes, was recently honored with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy Center for the Public Trust’s Being a Difference Award for her high standard of social responsibility and ethical leadership in business.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is allowing some extensions and exemptions to its new requirements that all FineCEN reports be filed electronically starting July 1, 2012, while pushing back the requirement for mandatory e-filing of FBAR reports until June 30, 2013.

Business process automation software maker Aestiva has released a new system to manage time tracking, expense tracking and the invoicing process for professional organizations and professionals who bill clients for professional services.