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The Securities and Exchange Commission will be poring over the comments it received on its recent proposal to toughen audit committee disclosures after the comment deadline expired Tuesday.

The Tax Court sided with a taxpayer who failed to get a petition protesting a tax lien delivered in time to the Tax Court’s own offices because of a federal holiday and a winter snowstorm that closed the offices.

The Internal Revenue Service is making changes to a program that aims to combat tax delinquency by over 300,000 current and retired federal employees who owe more than $3 billion in taxes.

The deadline for Accounting Today’s 2015 Managing Partner Elite list has been extended to Monday, Sept. 14.

Jeb Bush’s tax plan attempts to fuse disparate streams of Republican thinking on U.S. fiscal policy, moving beyond the base-broadening, rate-lowering mantra that has animated the party.

Yahoo! Inc. failed to get the advance approval it sought from U.S. officials for a plan to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. without incurring taxes.

BDO USA has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm dismissed a number of red flags and issued false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of a staffing services company, General Employment Enterprises.

Get Thomas Rustici talking about the current state of U.S. economic policymaking, and the adjectives start flowing: Corrupt, worst, wasteful, bloated, dangerous.

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

Proposed regulations released by the Treasury Department in January provide guidance on the definition of internal use software for the R&D tax credit.

The most influential people in the field of accounting, as chosen by their peers (slideshow version)

Now that Labor Day has come and gone, back-to-school sales tax holidays are over for most consumers, but accountants still have to deal with reporting what’s taxable and what’s not.

Salaries for accountants are expected to increase next year by an average of 2.4 percent, according to a 2016 Salary Guide released Tuesday by the recruiting firm Accounting Principals.

Net fees at CPA firms and per-partner income grew this past year, according to the newly released Rosenberg Survey.

Two-thirds of accounting, finance and business professionals believe regulation is having a significant or very significant impact on their organizations’ opportunities to grow and innovate, according to a new survey by the International Federation of Accountants.

Intuit released QuickBooks Accountant Desktop 2016, with new batch transaction, bill tracking and membership features.

The Internal Revenue Service did not finish testing a centralized data repository of health insurance coverage with federal and state exchanges in time for last tax season, according to a new government report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Bankrate and three of its former executives with accounting fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has gotten rid of a rarely used program that was supposed to allow taxpayers to expedite the appeals process.

An Internal Revenue Service auditor was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure after he allegedly assaulted a taxpayer he was auditing and threatened to close down her business if she didn’t cooperate.