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Apple Inc. is pushing back against a European tax investigation that could force the iPhone maker to pay more than $8 billion in back taxes.

Weaver is merging in Hereford, Lynch, Sellars & Kirkham, PC, effective March 1, 2016, building Weaver’s governmental practice.

Intuit launched the Intuit Affordable Care Act Resource Center to help tax professionals assist their individual and small business clients in understanding the tax and financial implications of the ACA.

A group of accounting firm leaders shared their perspectives Thursday on how they identify potential firms for mergers and acquisitions.

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

Tax reform is on the horizon, but the horizon likely extends beyond 2016, according to Marc Gerson, tax partner at Miller & Chevalier and former majority tax counsel to the House Ways and Means Committee.

With its origins in paper trails and manual processes, travel and entertainment expense reporting historically has been more of a black box for accounting professionals than a source of financial insight.

Perhaps the only consensus in U.S. politics is that the Byzantine and loophole-riddled corporate tax code needs reform.

The Internal Revenue Service is urging all tax preparers to do a thorough security scan of their computer drives and devices in case there is any malware lurking.

Top 100 firm RubinBrown LLP has merged in the Business Manager LLC, expanding the firm’s outsourced accounting services in Denver, effective immediately.

Tax havens are partly to blame for the rising level of income inequality, according to a new report from Oxfam America.

The American Institute of CPAs is planning to host a combined financial planning and accounting conference called AICPA Engage.

Companies are taking steps to prepare for a reputational crisis by employing an internal audit function, but less than half the board members polled in a new survey feel they are “well-versed” in the issues.

Go to any accounting conference and you will immediately hear people claiming a 15+ percent increase in revenues through the implementation of a new service. Talk to any vendor looking to sell a product and they will claim success stories whereby their product led to 25 percent growth in a firm for four years straight.And then a light bulb went off in my head. These people are scrounging out the 3 percent increases that I am seeing. They haven’t doubled in size, they haven’t found the secret sauce, they are tooting their own horns because it feels good when others think highly of them.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants have released a new report on how accountants can play a key role in the trend toward integrated reporting.

The financial information company Sageworks has entered into a strategic partnership with IndustryNewsletters, an email marketing company for accounting firms and other professional service firms.

Doeren Mayhew has merged in Adler & Company, P.C., a CPA firm in Farmington Hills, Mich.

European Union lawmakers said governments that give multibillion-euro tax subsidies to big companies shouldn’t get to pocket the money themselves if regulators order them to claw back illegal state aid.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is urging taxpayers and practitioners to be on “high alert” about a massive telephone fraud scam being committed by criminals impersonating Internal Revenue Service employees.

Paychex has compiled a list of what the payroll giant considers to be the top 10 regulatory issues that will have the biggest impact on businesses this year.