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The chairmen of Congress’s two main tax committees, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, have written to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew saying he should hold off on developing country-by-country reporting regulations for taxation of multinational corporations.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US said it has been selected for the 11th straight year by the Internal Revenue Service to deliver its sales tax rate and taxability tables to help taxpayers across prepare their tax returns.

Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services are collectively the most profitable industry in the U.S., according to a new ranking.

Only 10 percent of accounting and finance professionals believe there is someone internally who could easily step in to fill their role if they quit, according to a new survey.

Billionaire Donald Trump, who built his fortune in real estate, told Bloomberg Politics this week that he wants to raise his own taxes. One way to do it is a bipartisan proposal that would blow up one of the real estate industry's favorite tax breaks.

The Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing to increase the length of the Schedule EIC for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, requiring taxpayers to include much the same information on self-prepared returns that paid tax preparers are required to ask them on the EITC due diligence checklist.

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Paychex has released a list of what it sees as the top regulatory issues of this summer.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has published a new authoritative implementation guide that details comprehensive authoritative implementation guidance that has been cleared by the board for state and local governments.

Last year, the percentage of non-audit fees dropped below 10 percent of the total fees paid to audit firms for the first time since Sarbanes-Oxley, according to a new report.

I recently discussed the value of surveillance and, according to a comment on that post, I hit a nerve.

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

Combination of accounting and advisory firms will augment Baker Tilly’s service capabilities in the Northeast, drive results for SF&Company clients.

If you have discussed the idea of setting up a family limited partnership with any of your clients in the past, now might be a good time to revisit the subject.

A former Internal Revenue Service employee has been sentenced to two years and one day in prison for his role in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme.

Financial Executives International has appointed Andrej Suskavcevic as president and CEO of both FEI and the trade group’s Financial Executives Research Foundation.

Sixty-two percent of finance and accounting workers said they are confident about their ability to find a new job, while 78 percent believe it is unlikely they will lose their jobs over the next 12 months, according to a new survey.

Acumatica announced that Ali Jani was promoted to VP of partner strategy, enablement and services, succeeding Richard Duffy.

Adaptive Insights released an update to its cloud planning, consolidation, reporting and analysis suite.