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Real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle has partnered with the Property Tax division of Thomson Reuters’ Tax & Accounting business to provide tax mitigation services to corporate real estate clients.

Democratic lawmakers in the House have introduced legislation to extend unemployment benefits for three months until the end of February.

The recession isn’t over and many firms are still struggling to keep pace with not only economic changes, but a rapidly evolving technology and regulatory environment as well, and if they do not learn how to adapt they will be left behind.

As if one weren’t enough, now another group is expected to introduce its own take on how to cut the federal budget deficit.

Volunteers from RubinBrown in St. Louis recently celebrated its fifth annual Outreach Day by giving their time and talents to 12 nonprofit organizations in the area.

Southwest regional CPA firm Weaver has promoted P. “Trish” Fritsche to senior manager of forensic services, Carrie Hardison to senior manager of tax and strategic business services, Laura Lambert to senior manager of assurances services, and Antonio “Tony” Rocha to senior manager of state and local tax services.

The meeting on the Bush tax cuts between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders that was scheduled for Thursday has been postponed until Nov. 30 at the request of Republican congressional leaders, who cited “scheduling conflicts.”

Financial Accounting Foundation president Teresa S. Polley has been named CEO of the organization, which oversees both the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has asked the Government Accountability Office to analyze who benefits from the federal Build America Bonds program, and the proportion of tax dollars that go to Wall Street banks for fees rather than for the infrastructure projects themselves.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to Congress urging lawmakers to repeal the controversial new 1099 information reporting requirements in the health care reform bill.