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UHY Advisors GA has appointed Frank J. Fennello as the firm’s new managing director in the Southeast office in Atlanta, and the firm’s Texas unit has hired a senior manager in its Enterprise Risk Advisory Services department.

Haskell & White has promoted six members of the firm to strengthen its tax and audit teams.

Lee M. Reingold has joined Steven Sewald & Co. as a principal in the firm’s accounting and business consulting groups.

The Empire State is ramping up efforts to hunt down tax evaders, as well as the tax preparers who help them get away with it.

A Swiss banking executive and lawyer have been indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. in a sign that the IRS is now looking beyond UBS in its international tax enforcement efforts.

The Internal Revenue Service does not have a standardized process for monitoring the progress of its research projects, nor a way to validate the results or measure the impact of its research efforts on tax administration.

In response to the global financial crisis, the International Accounting Standards Board has published a set of proposals to amend the discount rate for measuring employee benefits.

A new study from sales tax software vendor Sabrix found that 95 percent of the companies it surveyed underestimated their sales tax liability and nexus footprint across state lines.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board took up the controversial question of disclosure requirements for loss contingencies at its latest meeting and decided that companies need to make more disclosures.

It’s no secret there is a growing crisis at the country’s colleges and universities - a lack of academically qualified accounting faculty threatens the pipeline of future accounting students.