Practice Management

A tax preparer pleaded guilty in a New Jersey federal court to preparing false income tax returns after he was caught by an undercover IRS agent posing as a client.

IMGCAP(1)]Business development seems to be the buzzword of 2011 (probably fourth behind cloud, social media, and merger).

Twenty-four percent of homeowners say they have challenged their property tax assessments at some point, according to a new survey.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next Thursday on the Internal Revenue Service’s recent efforts to step up regulation of tax return preparers.

The IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service may be pursuing relatively minor issues instead of truly systemic problems, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The Internal Revenue Service is asking for feedback on its plans to update its rules for how its Office of Appeals should communicate with other parts of the IRS about taxpayer disputes without the taxpayers or their representatives in the room.

A federal appeals court has affirmed a Tax Court ruling in favor of a couple who had asked the Internal Revenue Service to sell their shares of stock to pay the money they owed for failing to report income from a check-cashing scheme.

SIB Development & Consulting has formed a strategic partnership with BookKeeping Express to offer SIB’s services for reducing businesses’ monthly expenses through BookKeeping Express’s 30-plus franchise locations.

Enterprise Worldwide and Acuity Capital are teaming up to help CPA firms offer merger and acquisition intermediary services in their practices.

Government entities that didn’t comply with the tax laws received different terms in the agreements they reached with the Internal Revenue Service to resolve their tax issues, according to a new report.