Practice Management

President Barack Obama plans to meet with congressional leaders on Thursday to try to strike an agreement on raising the debt ceiling through a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.

Armanino McKenna has expanded its QlikView practice by merging in Factory Information Management Solutions, a certified solutions provider of QlikView business intelligence technology.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with the Millennium Multiple Employer Welfare Benefit Plan, which went bankrupt last year.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., offered 18 proposals to cut $1.29 trillion from the federal budget deficit over 10 years, including closing corporate tax loopholes and eliminating special tax breaks for wealthy Americans and big companies.

President Obama used his weekly address to say it was necessary to raise taxes on the wealthy to help close the budget deficit.

An inmate in a New Jersey prison has pleaded guilty to scamming the Internal Revenue Service out of nearly $215,000 by recruiting his fellow prisoners and filing false tax returns for them.

Weaver LLP merged with the Midland, Texas, office of Killman, Murrell & Company, P.C., effective Friday.

Sage North America and Microsoft Dynamics reseller Britec Computer Systems Ltd. has merged with British Columbia-based Accpac VAR Empower Business Solutions Inc., the combination of which will add to Britec’s overall Accpac client base.

A New York accounting firm employee has admitted to defrauding clients of a payroll services company out of more than $3 million in tax money.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected 33 companies as prime contractors to provide information technology services over a 10-yer period.