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IRS TO FOCUS ON FILLING VACANCIES

Academics, AICPA suggest reliability's more important

CPAs tap a wide variety of tactics in helping clients get their retirement plans in order

Much like your first date, or first anything for that matter (and I'll stop there), I'm sure many of you remember attending your first trade show. For me, it was in the 1980s at the cavernous McCormick Place in Chicago. Like a kindergartner dropped off by his mother for the first time, I recall being awed and overwhelmed by endless rows of exhibitor booths and their ware-hawking occupants, pulling me in more directions than a car salesman who needs to unload a fleet of aging inventory.

Institute and others urge lawmakers to reform civil penalties

Firm M&A is still hot and heavy, but making it work remains tricky

CCH has integrated its ProSystem fx Tax software with TaxScripts Inc.’s TaxScripts Pro to automate IRS transcript requests and disclosure authorization submissions.

The IRS reportedly wants to find out how closely companies are complying with requirements for paying employment taxes by doing audits of about 6,000 companies.

Thomson Reuters’ Tax & Accounting business has upgraded its TaxStream Provision software to help corporate tax departments with the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards.

The Internal Revenue Service has again extended the deadline for taxpayers to make voluntary disclosures of the unreported income they have stashed in hidden offshore accounts, but warned this would be the final extension.