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CALIFORNIAGlen Thomas and Chris York have launched ThomasYork LLP, San Ramon. Both were formerly with Jones, Henle & Schunck. ... Reznick Group has expanded its strategic partnership with Bedford Capital Consulting to offer cost-segregation services to commercial real estate clients in central and northern California.

DECEMBER17-18: Crystal Public Training: Business Enterprise - Administering Users & Content, Kolb & Co. Brookfield, Wis. Contact: www.kolbco.com.

In my younger and, admittedly, more naïve days, I once interviewed a candidate for a local election who’d come under fire for allegedly mismanaging a children’s hospital fund.

Environmental whistleblower Marrita Murphy has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her civil rights tax appeal after another appeals court reversed its own original ruling.

A computer program the Internal Revenue Service has been developing to expedite tax-exempt status requests is behind schedule, over budget and not performing all that well either, according to a report from the Treasury Department's in-house watchdog.

The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Tim Hubbs, president and CEO of Drake Software, as the chairman of its Electronic Tax Advisory Committee.

Three venerable accounting firms in South Carolina have combined operations.

Notice 2008-1 provides rules under which a 2 percent shareholder/employee in an S corporation is entitled to the deduction under Section 162(l) for accident and health insurance premiums paid or reimbursed by the S corporation and included in a shareholder or employee's gross income.

Igor Olenicoff, a billionaire industrial and commercial property developer, has pleaded guilty to filing a false 2002 tax return and paid $52 million in back taxes and penalties in an effort to stay out of jail.

'So, what do you use?" That was one of the frequently asked questions floating around Sage Summit, the recent annual customer conference organized by Sage Software.More than 2,200 attendees met here to discuss and dig deeper into their systems of choice, learn about other offerings in the company's portfolio and, of course, network.