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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.

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

Roger Philipp, CEO of Roger CPA Review, describes how accounting students can decide whether accounting is the right career for them, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Sales tax software provider Avalara has partnered with the publisher Wiley to offer a free ebook, “Sales & Use Tax Compliance for Dummies.”

In today’s society there is a great deal of emphasis and focus on all that is wrong with the world, with our country and even our businesses.

CountUp, an on-demand CPA marketplace that provides cloud practice management tools, announced the launch of its online marketplace.

About 6.6 million U.S. taxpayers paid a penalty imposed for the first time this year for not having health insurance, about 10 percent more than the Obama administration had estimated—though a portion didn’t need to.

A new government report urges the Internal Revenue Service to do a better job of educating and notifying taxpayers about provisions of the tax code requiring them to begin taking minimum distributions from their Individual Retirement Arrangements when they reach a certain age, but the IRS responded that it lacks enough money in its budget to do so.

Millennials are seeing gains in wage and employment growth, according to new data from payroll giant ADP that also found significant gains among older workers who delay retirement.

More than 300,000 taxpayers overpaid the Individual Shared Responsibility Payment for health insurance on their tax returns processed through the end of April, according to a new report from the National Taxpayer Advocate.

The U.S., Japan and Europe are being accused of blocking developing countries from participating in efforts to combat international tax evasion.

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul sued the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service over rules on how Americans abroad are taxed and what foreign banks must disclose about U.S. customers.

The conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch released new Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service documents last week indicating that the IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks, containing 1.25 million pages of confidential tax returns from 113,000 nonprofit social welfare groups operating under Section 501(c)(4) of the Tax Code.

Over the course of more than 40 years in practice and teaching both undergraduate and graduate accounting students, I have encountered some interesting, sometimes humorous definitions of some basic accounting terms.

Neat Company introduced a new invoicing parsing feature that uses the company’s InDocument Identification technology and accounting application integrations.

Victims of the early May’s severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding in parts of Texas may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

The United Nations Development Program and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have launched a new global initiative to help developing countries bolster their domestic revenues by strengthening their tax audit capacities.

Wui San Kwok, a practitioner member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, shares his insights in this interview on how the public perception of the accounting profession hinges on trust, and the different pressures and challenges faced by accountants in acting ethically.

Acumatica launched its content pack for Power BI, enabling customers to use Microsoft's cloud-hosted data visualization and business intelligence service.

The Big Four firms collectively account for nearly two-thirds of the global risk consulting market and could expand that footprint if they acquire more cybersecurity firms, suggests a new report.