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The House approved legislation by voice vote permanently banning states from taxing Internet access or placing multiple or discriminatory taxes on e-commerce.

Republican leaders of Congress’s two tax-writing committees are questioning recommendations from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development aimed at stopping multinational corporations from shifting their profits to low-tax countries.

ACCA USA, the U.S. arm of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, is partnering with the CFO Alliance, a global community of senior financial leaders and decision makers, in a campaign assessing the state of the global “talent gap” in accounting and finance.

U.S. House Republicans are proposing a 7.7 percent cut to the IRS budget, setting the boundaries for a budget standoff over the next few months.

The Internal Revenue Service did not receive much of the information it needed early this tax season from health insurance exchanges to verify taxpayers’ qualifications to claim tax credits to subsidize buying health coverage, according to a new report.

A host of changes are presenting challenges to the accounting profession, but they are also engendering business opportunities for those accountants who are willing to seize them.

A federal judge has ordered the IRS to answer questions by Friday, June 12, on the status of certain e-mails from former employee Lois Lerner that the service had said were lost.

The institute has recommended to the IRS that taxpayers making an accounting method change for mischaracterized research and experimental expenditures under Sec. 174 should compute a Sec. 481 (a) adjustment.

Soon the grasp of the taxman could be felt before the jackpot celebration stops at a lucky slot machine.

Avalara has announced EZtax, provider of tax compliance solutions for the telecommunications industry.

eFileCabinet announced it has secured a $14 million Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total raised to $15 million.

Recruiting and retaining qualified staff is the main concern for most accounting firms, according to a recent survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

Three little letters, brokers' mailrooms and keyboarding crooks seemed the major troublemakers of the season just gone by, according to preparers.

On Tuesday morning, the second day of events at Practitioners Symposium and Tech Conference in Orlando, Fla., Dave Maney, Founder/CEO of Deke Digital held a presentation on producing smarter social media content entitled, "Inbound Lead Generation Using Social Media."

As China grows as a world leader, more and more Chinese businesses and individuals are looking for CPAs who are familiar with taxes in both the U.S. and China.

Lixil Group, the Japanese company that owns the American Standard brand of toilets, sinks and other bathroom fixtures, is seeing its profits go down the drain after the company reported accounting problems last week.

Erik Asgeirsson, president and CEO of CPA.com, talks about how CPA.com, the business and technology arm of the American Institute of CPAs, is helping firms with change management and technology.

CPA.com president and CEO Erik Asgeirsson describes how technology automation and specialization are changing the accounting profession, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

A roundup of accounting firm mergers and acquisitions