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Thomson Reuters launched AskTRPS, an enhancement to Thomson Reuters Pricing Service.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting talks with Dan Hood of Accounting Today about how accountants should deal with younger consumers who are accustomed to using mobile devices and Web-based services.

As the story goes, John D. Rockefeller was getting his shoes shined when the shoeshine boy, not knowing whose shoes he was shining, started offering stock tips.

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The technology sector sets the trends, and other industries either adopt or die.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $70,000 tax lien against Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Wake Forest University and host of an eponymously titled cable TV news and talk show on MSNBC.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have re-introduced legislation that would ban federal contracts for companies that move their headquarters overseas, but only on paper, in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democratic member on the Senate Finance Committee, has introduced legislation to support health coverage for unemployed and retired workers.

The U.S. House voted this week to keep the Internal Revenue Service from hitting the nation’s wealthiest mega-donors with gift taxes for their political contributions.

The Maryland Association of CPAs scored some wins for its members in the Maryland State House this session after lobbying lawmakers earlier this year.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association are providing access to audit firm employees for four academic research projects.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting discusses how accountants and tax practitioners can continue to provide value to their clients as advisors, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The candy-maker Mars Inc. rolled out a tongue-in-cheek video this week in time for Tax Day to commemorate a 2013 Tax Court decision in which the court ruled against a taxpayer who tried to write off the cost of a Snickers bar as a tax deduction.

It’s no surprise that tax rates affect economic behavior.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to let taxpayers deduct state sales taxes on their federal returns, a victory for residents of Texas, Florida and other states that lack an income tax.

Accountants’ top technology-related priority is preventing security threats, according to the 25th Anniversary North American Top Technology Initiatives Survey.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has entered into a cooperative arrangement with the Auditors’ Public Oversight Authority of the Ministry for the National Economy of Hungary to oversee audit firms subject to both regulators’ jurisdictions.

A new study of consumer spending of tax refunds finds a correlation between how the refunds are perceived and whether taxpayers opt to spend the money right away or save it for later.

The U.S. House voted to repeal the 99-year-old U.S. estate tax amid a partisan clash over whether the government should break up concentrated wealth or make it easier to pass along assets to the next generation.

Faced with steep budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service directed more taxpayers to consult Web sites and its mobile app for answers to their questions this year rather than visiting the IRS’s walk-in Taxpayer Assistance Centers or calling its phone lines, while also using technology to detect tax refund fraud.