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Raleigh, N.C.-based Hughes Pittman & Gupton was named a 2011 Green Plus Mover of the Year last week by the Institute for Sustainable Development for its internal and community-focused environmental initiatives.

The House approved a repeal of the expanded 1099 information reporting requirements by a vote of 314-112 on Thursday.

Actor Wesley Snipes has appealed his three-year sentence on tax charges to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a good news-bad news scenario, half of small business owners are optimistic about their growth prospects in 2011. However, 47 percent reported that recent government regulations have slowed or prevented growth, according to a small business survey from payroll and benefits outsourcing concern Paychex.

Mark Paquin, CPA, has been elected to the partnership of Boston-area accounting firm Rucci Bardaro & Barrett PC. As a full-fledged member of the firm's leadership team, Paquin will continue to direct and expand its Audit Practice Group.

Financial advisor and accountant to the stars Kenneth Starr has been sentenced to 90 months in prison for defrauding his celebrity clients out of millions of dollars.

CPAs expressed their highest level of optimism about the U.S. economy this quarter since the third quarter of 2007, according to a new survey.

The agreement to pass $4 billion in spending cuts and table far more draconian spending cuts for a while has forestalled the threat of a government shutdown for another two weeks.

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The House moved one step closer to repealing the expanded 1099 information reporting requirements in the Affordable Care Act and Small Business Jobs Act on Wednesday by approving a controversial offset to the cost of the repeal.