Practice Management

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Internal Revenue Service nearly doubled the amount of money it paid to tax whistleblowers last year and is taking steps to make the process move faster.

Accounting firm MBAF has merged in Rampell & Rampell, P.A., a firm based in Palm Beach, Fla., expanding MBAF’s presence in South Florida and adding more expertise in various specialties.

An Internal Revenue Service employee who worked for the Taxpayer Advocate Service, where her job was to help taxpayers resolve their identity theft problems, pleaded guilty to stealing identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme involving up to $1.5 million in fraudulent income tax returns.

Maryland's comptroller has suspended processing electronic and paper tax returns from 11 private preparers at 14 locations.

A New York City CPA is launching a startup company this tax season that he hopes will become an “Uber for taxes.”

Many major tax changes go into effect this year for individual taxpayers.

An influential senator is asking the Internal Revenue Service to put a system in place to track the specific sources of unpaid corporate taxes.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is pressing the Internal Revenue Service in a new report to improve its procedures for direct debt installment agreements to avoid taxpayer defaults.

For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary.