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There is an additional standard deduction for those who don’t qualify to itemize their tax deductions, but who do pay state or local real estate taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service. This deduction is available for the 2008 and 2009 tax years.

Looking for some beginner advice on how to maximize your “tweet” potential and navigate around social networking’s latest party? One novice Twitter user (from Dublin, Ireland) offers his advice to the mix. Read more on Accounting Tomorrow's blog.

Accounting firm BDO Seidman anticipates that shareholder meetings this year will be dominated by concerns about excessive executive compensation, recession plans and credit concerns.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that accounting standards need to be modified to deal better with valuing illiquid assets.

How do you deal with the old guys? A Rutgers college journalism student posed that question to me when I visited my alma matter this semester to talk to a class about newsroom management.

Shortly after college, one of my former roommates who majored in finance studied and successfully passed his Series 7 exam, which meant that he was now free to peddle securities to uninformed dolts such as myself.

In the wake of its decision not to renew contracts with two private debt collection agencies, the Internal Revenue Service now appears set to review other types of outside contracts.

Intuit plans to extend its Intuit Online Payroll service to accountants, Mac users, banks and credit unions, starting this spring.

CCH has closely integrated its CorpSystem Sales Tax Office software with Microsoft Dynamics GP.

How do you deal with the old guys? A Rutgers college journalism student posed that question to me when I visited my alma matter this semester to talk to a class about newsroom management.