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President Obama urged a group of leaders of community banks to increase their lending to small businesses.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has established an academic fellowship program to recruit accounting researchers to spend a year at the PCAOB’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee said they intend to work on passing legislation to extend expiring tax breaks early next year.

The Internal Revenue Service released its 2010 inflation adjustments to the excise taxes on airport transportation, with at least some of them ascending.

The Internal Revenue Service is unable to verify taxpayer eligibility for the majority of the tax benefits and credits provided by the Recovery Act, according to a new report.

IMGCAP(1)] The Texas Food Bank Network has been named as the Weaver and Tidwell’s Private Foundation “Charity of Choice” and as a result has received a donation of $50,000 and the time of the firm’s community.

The Senate’s brand-new 10 percent tax on indoor tanning services is bound to lead to some further creative thinking about how to generate extra revenue to cover the costs of health care reform.

The Stevens Institute of Technology and its president are under investigation by not only the New Jersey Attorney General, but also the IRS.

The number of employers planning to offer annuities to participants in their 401(k) plans is expected to grow as companies look for ways to provide workers with a steady distribution of benefits during retirement, according to a new survey.

For at least the first few days of 2010, and probably longer, executors of the estates of people dying after Dec. 31, 2009, will be operating in a difficult environment after the Senate’s failure to extend the estate tax at its current rates.