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

Bill.com announced the hiring of Bob Lewis as senior director of channels and alliances.

If you’ve worked in the tax and accounting profession long enough, you know that strong client relationships are the foundation of a successful practice.

The Internal Revenue Service is appealing a court decision that it lost last year to a chip maker in a case involving stock-based compensation.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that an investigation into last year’s data breach in the online Get Transcript application revealed it affected hundreds of thousands more taxpayers than originally believed.

Intuit reported 23 percent growth in the second quarter of 2016, with TurboTax Online units growing 12 percent through Feb. 20, outpacing both the company’s guidance and the e-filing season to-date.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents has challenged a proposed ninefold increase to the fee charged by the Internal Revenue Service for the Special Enrollment Exam.

The economic downturn of eight years ago caused a sharp decline in sales of capital assets reported on individual returns, according to the IRS Winter 2016 Statistics of Income Bulletin.

A pair of Democrats have introduced legislation in Congress to expand protections for financial whistleblowers to close some loopholes in the Dodd-Frank Act that have been exploited by some employers.

High tax rates and cybersecurity are among the most pressing concerns of CFOs at technology companies, according to a new survey by BDO USA.

Billionaire Donald Trump insisted Thursday that he couldn’t release his tax returns now because he is under a “very routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service, and said he’s been audited constantly over the past 12 years.

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

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, a trade association that represents companies in the equipment finance sector, had been pushing back against some of the earlier versions of the new lease accounting standard that were proposed in recent years, but it is satisfied with the final standard.

Six of 13 IRS-approved free e-filing services Web sites failed in taking steps to help protect consumers from fraudulent and malicious e-mail, according to a recent audit.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Cyber liability has moved to the forefront of hazards facing the CPA profession, according to industry experts.

Do you have a smartphone or tablet purchased in the last year or two? If you do, chances are it has more RAM memory inside than most of your desktop and laptop PCs.

Now that the Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its long-awaited lease accounting standard, companies and their accountants will need to get ready to put their operating leases on the balance sheet.

The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Program Office helped almost 40,000 taxpayers last year, according to its fourth annual report.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued its long-awaited lease accounting standard Thursday, one of the major convergence projects on which it has collaborated for a decade with the International Accounting Standards Board.