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A roundup of recent hires, promotions, awards and other personnel news from firms across the country.

The 2016 Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders

Special Report

Facebook Inc. will stop routing advertising sales of its largest U.K. clients through Ireland, increasing its British tax bill by millions of pounds in a bid to improve transparency after facing criticism on tax avoidance.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed rescinding tax relief and other incentives retroactively for U.S. companies that move jobs and operations overseas.

Accountively launched its cloud-based technology platform that enables taxpayers to procure tax return preparation services from its network of tax and accounting professionals.

Xero launched the Xero TaxTouch app, developed for freelance workers who submit a Schedule C form with their tax filings.

In 2015, by some accounts there were just over 100 CPA firm mergers and acquisitions—a large number of which were consummated by the 2015 Accounting Today Top 100 Firms.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Treasury Department to provide tax relief to the cross-border savings accounts of U.S. and Canadian citizens.

Employment increased by a healthy 242,000 jobs in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although only 100 jobs were added in accounting and bookkeeping services.

Check out the digital edition of the March 2016 issue of Accounting Today.

A roundup of new hardware, software, books and services for accountants.

Accounting software solutions are creating their own environments

Despite government disapproval, corporate inversions still have fans

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new lease accounting standard could have some positive payoffs for companies if they take a careful approach to implementing it.

With cases of identity theft and tax fraud increasing almost exponentially, tax preparers should educate their clients about the dangers they face in having their information compromised, according to executives at several credit monitoring and identity protection services.

Nexonia has acquired ExpenseWatch, provider of spend management solutions.

NetSuite has acquired the cloud practice of IQity, provider of advanced collaborative manufacturing software.

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

Nearly three out of four organizations now include cybersecurity risks in their internal audits, a big jump from last year, according to a new survey.