Practice Management

Blucora’s $580 million acquisition of HD Vest Financial Services promises to open up new opportunities for tax professionals who work with the brokerage.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, people who are dealing with issues outside of your office not only struggle to provide value from their role, but they inadvertently interrupt the value provided by your entire organization. There is a story whirling around the college football arena about this exact issue.

The Internal Revenue Service’s plans to upgrade its workstations and servers to newer versions of Windows led to years-long delays, according to a new government report.

Blucora Inc., the onetime Internet giant known as InfoSpace, agreed to pay $580 million for HD Vest Financial Services, one of the few brokerages that specialize in helping tax advisers become licensed to sell investment products.

With states and localities increasingly looking to collect taxes from people and businesses that buy goods and services online, many taxpayers may not be aware that they could be overpaying sales and use taxes.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s 2007 standard on accounting for uncertainty in income taxes, FASB Interpretation No. 48, or FIN 48, has helped discourage companies from using tax reserves to manage their quarterly earnings reports, according to a new study.

The Internal Revenue Service has made progress on implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, including explaining the various requirements to the affected stakeholders, according to a new report.

Argentinean soccer star Lionel Messi is facing the possibility of jail time after a Spanish judge turned down a request by prosecutors to drop the tax fraud charges against him.

At a rate of one or two a week, Swiss banks are doing what was once unthinkable: revealing to the world how they helped wealthy Americans cheat on their taxes.

Back in 1980, I got a pretty large client and quoted a fixed annual fee to start, which would cover the routine regular work.