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Eisner LLP and Amper Politziner & Mattia LLP reportedly plan to merge, expanding the two firms’ presence across New York and New Jersey.

Financial information company Sageworks Inc. has released an enhancement to Sageworks Counselor (formerly ProfitCents), designed to enable accountants to better advise clients on the steps they can take to overcome their current challenges, position themselves for future growth, and obtain additional funding.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Seattle-area skin care retailer and its former CFO with fraudulently boosting earnings by reporting sales of anti-aging products promoted through Home Shopping Network infomercials while the products still sat unsold in the company's warehouse.

A Canadian citizen was sentenced to nearly three years in a U.S. federal prison after he tried to deposit a $350,000 U.S. federal tax refund in a Washington State bank.

Audit firms that engage in shady accounting practices or financial fraud face a growing risk of being turned in – by their own staff accountants and by the internal auditors of their public company clients.

Consumer taxes for retail sales items, gas and cigarettes have all continued to climb in the past year, according to an annual survey of consumption taxes by CCH.

A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao and his business, Phoenix Financial Management Group, from preparing federal tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service could do more to encourage tax preparers to reduce the $345 billion tax gap, according to a new government report.

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