Practice Management

The advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a rulemaking petition asking the Internal Revenue Service to clarify the regulations for tax-exempt business trade groups organized under Section 501(c)6 of the Tax Code and rein in abuses by them, while also calling on the IRS to investigate one such group, Freedom Partners, which is supported by the conservative Koch brothers who own Koch Industries.

The taxation of damages is a nightmare for taxpayers.

Lionel B. Sanders CPA has merged with the Santa Monica, Calif-based accounting firm Gumbiner Savett Inc.

William Vaughan Co. has merged with Miller, Gardner & Co. .

Thomson Reuters has released a new special report on year-end tax planning for 2013 for individuals and businesses.

Bartolomei Pucciarelli CPAs & Advisors sealed the deal to merge with Hill, Barth & King.

Taxpayer data is vulnerable to inappropriate use, modification or disclosure, perhaps without being detected, according to a new government report that found problems with the Internal Revenue Service’s technology for configuration management and identity and access management.

I am consistently surprised by CPA firms’ lack of process when it comes to obtaining new clients.

Goldstein/Sacks & Associates has agreed to merge with Alexander Thompson Arnold CPAs.

The average accounting firm spends 2-5 percent of its gross revenues on marketing (excluding salaries), according to an ongoing survey.