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Of the 131 changes in state and local taxes last quarter, 91.6 percent were either tax increases or new taxes, according to a new report.

IMGCAP(1)] For the first time in many years, new clients, practice growth, and marketing and business development are among the top MAP survey issues keeping managing partners awake at night. For many firms this translates into the question – should we hire a marketing director, a marketing consultant, someone administrative to “get the letters out,” a lead generator or a salesperson?

I would not be accused of hyperbole for writing thatthere were a number of organizations who turned in a better performanceover the past year and a half than the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Houston-based accounting firm MaloneBailey has responded to a recent alert from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that cautioned auditing firms against relying on foreign auditors, particularly in China, to do their work.

Two Republican lawmakers are warning the Treasury Department against making a change in tax policy that would favor trial lawyers who handle lawsuits on a contingency basis and want to deduct loans to clients.

RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen formally announced their acquisition of Caturano and Company a few days ago, even though the news has been widely known for about a month.

BNA Tax & Accounting has introduced its first application for the RIM BlackBerry, an electronic version of its Quick Tax Reference guide.

The nonprofit Tax Foundation has introduced an online calculator that allows taxpayers to compare how they would fare if all the Bush tax cuts expired as scheduled at the end of this year.

St. Louis-based accounting firm RubinBrown plans to expand westward by combining with Denver-based Saltzman Hamma Nelson Massaro to form one of the 50 largest accounting firms in the U.S.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, will face a trial before his congressional colleagues after a House investigative panel found that he violated ethics rules.