Practice Management

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases …

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be sure to notify the Social Security Administration before they file their taxes if they have changed their own name or the name of one of their dependents has changed. Otherwise their tax refund could be delayed.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure to help taxpayers with so-called “mezzanine” financing in workouts and similar circumstances when they have debts that have been discharged in connection with real property.

U.S. Wealth Management CEO John Napolitano discusses how CPAs can start a financial planning practice and how the initiative can go wrong, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., was confirmed Thursday as U.S. Ambassador to China, which could prolong an investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s handling of tax-exempt applications, along with tax reform efforts.

Businesses often take a risk in the development of new products and processes.

Crowe Horwath has introduced technology to help companies comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new conflict minerals rule requiring them to perform due diligence to determine whether their products contain tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold, determine the country of origin for those minerals and report their findings to customers and the SEC.

Gallina LLP has acquired Tueffers, Guckian & Gamon PLLC.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Refundo, a provider of low-cost tax-related bank products, has partnered with online- and app-payment provider Stripe to allow tax offices to accept credit card payments through Refundo’s online platform.