Practice Management

Thomson Reuters has released the 2014-2015 edition of its Tax Planning Guide, which accountants and tax professionals can distribute to their clients and prospects.

U.S. Wealth Management president and CEO John Napolitano discusses how accountants should take charge of the various advisors that their clients deal with and coach them, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany, Jr., R-La., have written a letter to the advocacy group Democracy 21 asking it to provide all communications with the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit, Lois Lerner, including emails.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has released her mid-year report to Congress, in which she urges the Internal Revenue Service to issue refunds to victims of tax preparer fraud and expand the IRS’s recently announced voluntary tax preparer education program to include competency testing.

A group of senators has introduced a bipartisan bill governing sales taxes on online purchases and Internet access after previous legislation failed to make progress in the House.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut the Internal Revenue Service’s budget by $1.14 billion in another blow to the tax agency.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on truncated taxpayer identification numbers, or TTINs, to safeguard against identity theft.

One of the first, and perhaps most important, decisions a business owner initially makes is the type of business entity to select.

The House has approved by voice vote legislation permanently banning states from taxing Internet access or imposing multiple or discriminatory taxes on e-commerce.

The American Institute of CPAs has filed a federal lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service challenging the legality of the IRS's plans for voluntary continuing education and testing of tax preparers.