Practice Management

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by the American Institute of CPAs over its new program offering voluntary education and testing of non-CPA tax preparers.

New York and New Jersey have the worst tax environments for businesses, according to a new index, while Wyoming and South Dakota have the best.

Intuit has enhanced its program for tax professionals, adding new benefits and opening it to enrolled agents.

Executives with Wolters Kluwer CCH described a series of improvements to their tax, accounting and auditing software products at the CCH Connections user conference in Orlando on Monday, including enhancements to leverage the power of Google and other popular search engines.

The Internal Revenue Service should improve the way it performs final testing of its computer systems prior to tax season to make sure they are working properly, according to a new government report.

A defense attorney at the tax-conspiracy trial of Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, sought to show that the government’s key witness resented his boss’s success.

Many real estate and venture capital partnerships and LLCs have investors that need their K-1 tax statements to file their individual returns. Depending upon the way they are managed, some never have their books up to date and ready for tax filing until late in the summer, while others are maintained monthly and are closed and ready for tax preparation the end of January or beginning of February.

Hal Hicks cleared his throat and addressed a roomful of peers in a midtown Manhattan auditorium. The topic: the tax-avoidance technique called inversion, in which a U.S. company claims a foreign legal address.

The best prepared accounting firms manage to be more productive and profitable, according to a new study by Wolters Kluwer CCH.

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