Practice Management

An amendment to a highway transportation bill that would have extended expired tax credits such as the Research and Experimentation Credit in exchange for freezing the salaries of federal employees for another year has gone down to defeat in the Senate.

Forty percent of senior finance executives at midsize companies say that lack of bargaining power with customers and suppliers is their biggest obstacle in improving cash and working capital management.

The National Taxpayer Advocate is raising concerns about the effectiveness of the Internal Revenue Service’s increasing reliance on correspondence exams instead of face-to-face audits.

Corporate audit giant Ernst & Young operates a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., that has been hired in recent years by several corporations that were at the same time E&Y audit clients, prompting two senior lawmakers to demand closer regulatory scrutiny.

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A group of U.S. expatriates has written a letter to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman to complain he has not responded to a directive from the National Taxpayer Advocate objecting to the way taxpayers who came forward under the 2009 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program were treated by IRS examiners.

CBIZ has acquired a six-member state tax consulting group from the firm Dow Lohnes Price.

The Senate has unanimously approved a provision to a highway transportation bill that would revoke the passports of people with seriously delinquent tax debts.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued transition rules for the repair regulations for tangible property.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun providing the initial set of test results and certificates to tax preparers who have registered for the new tax return preparer competency test.