Practice Management

Epicor Software Corporation has agreed to acquire midmarket enterprise resource planning and management systems product maker Solarsoft Business Systems from Marlin Equity Partners.

Valuations LLC, a company that provides free and low-cost business valuations for business owners, has introduced ProValuation, Web-based software designed for accountants, business brokers, and financially sophisticated business owners that allows them to output detailed business appraisals in either PDF or Microsoft Word format

A pair of financial firms that were located in the same building in Bedford, Mass., have decided to merge.

Mitt Romney says he can lower income tax rates by 20 percent without costing the U.S. government revenue and without making the middle class carry a bigger share of the tax load.

Few criminal tax cases are defended successfully, with the government boasting a conviction rate of 94 percent. So when the IRS used information from three jailed former boiler room operators to go after Boca Raton CPA John Miller, it didn’t look good for Miller.

Fuoco Group is expanding from its Long Island base to Miami, combining with Dohan Salum + Company, a CPA firm serving the South Florida area.

Preparing accurate tax returns is still a challenge for all too many participants in the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Program, according to a new government report.

The House held a hearing Thursday to discuss small business perspectives on the tax cliff, hearing testimony from a representative of the American Institute of CPAs and other witnesses.

An Internal Revenue Service program that is supposed to be able to refer potential tax fraud cases to IRS criminal investigators needs to be improved, according to a new report.

The likelihood of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service has its strongest impact on laxly governed companies and fosters corporate truthfulness not just in confidential tax returns, but in public financial reports, according to new research.