Practice Management

Deloitte recently formed a Social Impact Practice to help clients deal with pressing global issues such as food security, health, education, clean water and the environment.

Piguet Galland & Cie SA will pay $15.4 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires participating firms in Switzerland to say how they helped American clients dodge taxes.

Oscar Wilde was certainly not thinking about accounting firm mergers and acquisitions when he penned his farcical comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. But, the message in the title is abundantly clear for any CPA firm considering such a transaction.

Education services company Kaplan Inc. a subsidiary of publicly traded Graham Holdings, has agreed to acquire SmartPros, Ltd., a provider of accredited professional education and training for accountants and other finance professionals.

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

The Internal Revenue Service recently proposed regulations that could have a big impact on U.S.-based multinational corporations that are considering incorporating a foreign branch operation or transferring intellectual property abroad.

It’s just not in the nature of most accountants to make hassle calls to taxpayer clients who are late coming in to get their returns prepared and filed.

Magician David Copperfield has sued his accountant for failing to file his 2008 and 2009 Canadian tax returns and not telling him his previous accountant didn’t file his 2007 Canadian tax return either.

The Internal Revenue Service has been providing face-to-face assistance to fewer people at its Taxpayer Assistance Centers around the country, according to a new government report.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed tax regulations Wednesday to bring the rules in line with recent Supreme Court decisions.