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The Internal Revenue Service has upgraded the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Online Registration System, enabling sponsoring entities such as foreign banks to register their sponsored entities to obtain a global intermediary identification number.

Ernst & Young has released the EY Tax Guide 2016, adding new chapters of information on tax preparation.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update to clarify the definition of a business in an effort to improve financial reporting of acquisitions of nonfinancial assets.

EisnerAmper announced a pair of mergers Monday, with Mallah Furman in South Florida and Ueltzen & Company in California.

BlackLine introduced BlackLine Insights, cloud analytics software built to give customers real-time data to benchmark, analyze and improve the efficiency and performance of their finance processes.

The Indiana Board of Accountancy has approved a proposed rule change that would amend the ethics requirements for CPAs in the Hoosier state, promising to pave the way for competency- or experience-based ethics education in Indiana.

The Internal Revenue Service does not always penalize employers who fail to respond to requests to resolve discrepancies in the wage information reported to the federal government, according to a new report.

Accounting firm chief information officers plan to hire more IT staff for the remainder of 2015, according to a recent survey conducted by the ITA.

Moss Adams has agreed to combine with Spokane, Wash.-based financial services consulting firm Contineo.

Vanguard Group Inc. has reached an agreement to pay several million dollars in back taxes in Texas, the first known payout related to a whistle-blower’s accusation that the world’s biggest mutual-fund company underpaid its taxes by tens of billions of dollars.

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Jackson Hewitt Tax Service has opened for the next season with a new Year-End Tax Planner service that will estimate 2015 taxes and refunds.

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Two-thirds of HR and hiring managers say their company plans to give monetary holiday bonuses this year, according to a new survey, with the average amount expected to be $858.

The number of donor-advised funds created, and the amount of donations to them, continue to increase substantially.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to improve how deferred taxes are classified on the balance sheet.

A partner at a New York CPA firm has pleaded guilty to participating in a multimillion-dollar accounting fraud scheme.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new regulations for innocent spouse relief related to joint and several liability under the Tax Code.

Microsoft announced a new release of its flagship ERP solution Microsoft Dynamics AX, to be generally available in the first quarter of 2016.