Practice Management

As a general rule, the cost of commercial real estate improvements is recovered over a painfully long period of 39 years via straight line depreciation only.

Rebecca Newton-Clarke, a senior editor/author at Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint, discusses some of the sales tax issues that are relevant to e-commerce, including nexus, in this video.

Global shipping and international trade have been reserved historically for big companies with the resources required to manage the disparate steps involved in moving shipments worldwide. After managing “big trade” for some of the largest companies in the world, I believe the real global trade opportunity is with small and midsize businesses. But SMBs are likely flying blind (and under your radar); they need your help.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has proposed to simplify the complicated capital depreciation rules for businesses.

The annual Rosenberg Survey of CPA firm management is preparing to get underway.

A Georgia couple have pleaded guilty to participating in a identity theft-related tax fraud scheme in which they used the Internal Revenue Service’s online ‘Get Transcript’ application to steal other taxpayers’ refunds.

With the April 2016 tax filing season behind us, it is time to start focusing clients on new tax issues they will be facing for the current tax year.

Ever-evolving regulatory complexity, coupled with an increasingly competitive marketplace, globalization and the rise of part-time and casual employees make it more difficult than ever for growing businesses to keep up with the numerous changes in the law, risking costly noncompliance.

The state tax arena is filled with variation, complexity, confusion and ambiguity, which has major implications for U.S. corporations, according to findings from Bloomberg BNA’s 2016 Survey of State Tax Departments, conducted for the 16th consecutive year.

The New York State Society of CPAs will be holding its first ever Sustainability Investment Leadership Conference on May 6. This is a new area that could result in substantial involvement by CPAs.