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Avalara announced the appointment of David van Toor as general manager of the cloud-based tax compliance solutions provider’s EMEA operations.

E-signature provider Signix has created an infographic about the Internal Revenue Service and e-signatures.

Hodgson Pratt Pratt & Saunders of New Bedford, Mass., has joined the Top 100 firm CliftonLarsonAllen.

BDO USA has expanded throughout Central Florida with the addition of 95 professionals and staff from Cross, Fernandez & Riley LLP.

A new academic study casts doubt on whether efforts to require companies to rotate their audit firms lead to greater professional skepticism on the part of auditors.

Happy Asker, the founder of a pizza chain based in Farmington Hills, Mich., that operated restaurants throughout Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, was sentenced last week to 50 months in prison for income and employment tax fraud.

California-based writer Cheryl Meyer recently published an op-ed on the AICPA's site titled, 'Should accounting learning students learn to code?' In it, Meyer argues that by learning coding, students will be able to become more well-rounded in today's technology-driven world.

Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced legislation to clarify equal treatment for all married couples under the U.S. tax code in response to the Supreme Court's ruling last month allowing same-sex marriage in every state.

Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and ranking Democratic member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Friday the committee will markup a tax extenders bill next Tuesday.

The experts at HD Vest lay out the financial details that every couple should take care of before the big day.

The ride-sharing app Uber is showing up more than taxis on employee expense reports, according to a new analysis.

“In every country I’ve been in, real estate is the best tax shelter,” said Tom Wheelwright, CPA, an advisor and speaker at Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad seminars, and a contributor to Donald Trump’s Wealth Builders Program.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has release its revised International Standards on Auditing to provide more focus on financial statement disclosures.

TSheets announced an integration with Square to connect employee time tracking with point-of-sale transactions.

A coalition of employers and trade associations from a variety of different industries are asking Congress to clarify the rules for determining eligibility for tax credits for health insurance.

Weaver launched a new IT advisory service to provide computer network security assessments performed by a Certified Ethical Hacker.

Undercover investigators working for the Government Accountability Office were able to receive approximately $30,000 in Advance Premium Tax Credits for health insurance after setting up a dozen fictitious accounts.

XBRL US has begun a public exposure period for rules developed by its Data Quality Committee, which aims to improve the quality of financial filings using the interactive Extensible Business Reporting Language format mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A 94-year-old man who was once a Waffen SS volunteer at Auschwitz was convicted for aiding in the murder of more than 300,000 Jews at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend highway and transit funding through Dec. 18, in contrast with Senate Republicans who want a longer extension.