Practice Management

The American Institute of CPAs kicked off its Spring Meeting of Council in Washington, D.C., on Sunday with a packed agenda of meetings with lawmakers to press for priorities, including improvements in taxpayer service by the Internal Revenue Service.

Members of U2 defended the Irish rock band’s tax strategy as the band kicked off its world tour.

The Internal Revenue Service is marking National Military Appreciation Month with a free tax guide about tax benefits for the military.

An Alabama woman has been charged with filing more than 3,000 tax returns over a two-year period claiming over $7.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

Let’s say one of your top players at your firm is out suddenly for the remainder of the most important time of the year. What do you do?

Lawmakers have introduced legislation that would provide a month-long safe harbor from income tax and withholding requirements for traveling employees and their employers.

BDO USA said Friday it would add Stone Carlie & Company to its firm, expanding Chicago-based BDO into the St. Louis market and in the process becoming a firm with more than $1 billion in annual revenue after a string of recent mergers and acquisitions.

BB&T Corp.’s transaction with Barclays Plc to generate tax credits was “simply a money machine” with no economic purpose and can’t be used to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. tax rebates, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

Popular at times in the past, but perhaps out of favor more recently, QPRTs (Qualified Personal Residence Trusts) may be an idea whose time has returned.

The head of a Senate investigative subcommittee said he plans to look into problems with the health insurance marketplaces set up for the Affordable Care Act that forced many taxpayers to owe some of the tax credit money they had received for buying health insurance.