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Having played golf once in my life during my days at Ft. Bragg, N.C., I’m not exactly an avid golfer. But as two golf courses in North Carolina discovered last month, it’s getting tougher for them to successfully claim a charitable contribution deduction for a conservation easement.

Machen McChesney has acquired Wolf & Taunton, a Montgomery Ala.-based accounting firm, effective Dec. 1, 2015.

TaxAct has released the 2015 Preparer’s Editions of its tax preparation software.

The Internal Revenue Service has dropped a proposed regulation giving tax-exempt organizations the option of providing the Social Security Numbers of their donors.

Intuit announced security enhancements across its suite of professional tax products, including Intuit Tax Online, ProSeries and Lacerte, as part of the company’s continued work with the IRS, states and industry to combat tax fraud.

Former billionaire entrepreneur Samuel Wyly’s “difference of opinion” with the Internal Revenue Service could turn an offshore fortune into an onshore fraud if the agency gets its way.

The Swiss bank used by the convicted con man known as “The Wolf of Wall Street” agreed to pay almost $188 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients avoid taxes through such methods as providing untraceable gold bars and cash.

A filmmaker is suggesting a new way to avoid skirmishes over notoriously dubious Hollywood accounting.

RKL eSolutions has acquired Sage 100 and manufacturing software provider Baesis to expand the company’s Sage practice.

Dec. 22, 2015, marked the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Enacted at the behest of accounting firms, the PSLRA was crafted to immunize accountants from securities fraud liability. The result over the last two decades has been a substantial erosion in the ability of investors to hold accounting firms accountable.

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP said Wednesday that Baltimore-based Stegman & Company will join the firm on June 1, 2016.

WeiserMazars LLP has elected CEO Victor Wahba as the new chairman of the firm, effective Jan. 1, 2016, succeeding Douglas A. Phillips, who has become a senior advisor to the firm.

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired the non-attest business of the San Diego, Calif.-based firm Millimaki Eggert, LLP, effective January 1, 2016, while CBIZ’s affiliated CPA firm Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. has acquired Millimaki Eggert’s attest business.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson released her 2015 annual report to Congress on Wednesday, focusing on her concern that the IRS may be on the verge of dramatically scaling back telephone and face-to-face service it has provided for decades.

Private sector employers added 257,000 jobs to their payrolls last month as the economy continued to strengthen across most sectors, according to payroll giant ADP.

Growth, collaboration, and a concentration on fraud and data security will be impactful nonprofit accounting trends in 2016, according to nonprofit software provider Abila.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has formed a new North American software unit led by Jason Marx, formerly the head of the company's Small Firm Services unit.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

San Antonio CPA firm Findling, Milam & Pyle has joined Houston and San Antonio-based ABIP, PC, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and American Express teamed up Tuesday to give clients the option to receive tax refunds on an American Express Serve account.