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Thomson Reuters released a content update to the Checkpoint Catalyst tool to help professionals comply with the financial reporting requirements set by the FASB.

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

The pace of change in the CPA profession is getting faster, and not enough accountants are ready, according to New York State Society of CPAs executive director Joanne Barry.

While life insurance can be an income tax-free asset when structured appropriately, the income tax laws may result in the transfer of life insurance policies that are income taxable to both the transferor and the transferee.

Hillary Clinton is proposing a tax on the flash boys that may be unlike any in the world.

The Internal Revenue Service has revised and updated its publication on how businesses should protect taxpayer data.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a consumer alert about possible fake charity scams emerging due to severe flooding this month in South Carolina and neighboring states.

The Internal Revenue Service has not been revoking the Preparer Tax Identification Numbers of thousands of tax preparers who fail to comply with IRS rules and their own tax-filing and payment obligations, according to a new report.

Public companies paid an average of $1.5 million in audit fees last year, according to a new report, with a median audit fee of $402,812, representing a median increase of 3.4 percent over the audit fees they paid in 2013.

Bloomberg BNA has released an analysis of the state tax challenges associated with cloud computing.

Thomson Reuters has added content to its Checkpoint Catalyst research system on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s financial reporting requirements.

Senior tax executives are preparing for changes in the tax landscape as a result of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s base erosion and profit shifting project.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday the number of tax returns electronically filed by businesses increased nearly 9 percent this year, continuing the growth in the number of corporate and partnership returns filed electronically.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urging him to recover the tax benefits earned by Volkswagen for the cars it sold that turned out to have their emissions tests rigged, but without penalizing the taxpayers who had purchased the supposedly energy efficient vehicles and claimed tax credits for them.

Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal released a tax reform plan that would require all Americans to pay taxes.

Camico is offering insurance coverage to protect CPAs from losses caused by a variety of different “cyber risks.”

Melanie Power, head of bookkeeping for Xero Australia, talks with Accounting Technology editor-in-chief Danielle Lee about how to build a stronger client connection with the use of technology.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday examining the rising costs of higher education and tax policy, including how tax breaks could be a contributing factor behind spiraling tuition costs.

British Petroleum will be able to write off $15.3 billion of the $20.8 billion settlement of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an advocacy group.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering tax relief to victims of the historic flooding in recent days in South Carolina.