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Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders shared their strategies onhow they attract new talent to their firm. Some firms are shelling out the dough with sweet recruitment bonuses and reimbursement programs, while others are beefing up their search at colleges and universities.

Zuora announced a new $115 million investment, bringing the total amount of capital raised to fund its RBM platform to $250 million.

A married couple who are partners in a Louisiana tax preparation service are also allegedly partners in crime, according to prosecutors.

The Internal Revenue Service said it has federal income tax refunds totaling $1 billion waiting for an estimated 1 million taxpayers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2011.

The Internal Revenue Service generally has adequate processes in place to prevent inadvertent disclosures of taxpayer information to unauthorized people, but it also understates the number of inadvertent disclosures it makes, according to a new government report.

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and ranking Democrat Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have revived a bipartisan effort to solicit ideas from interested members of the public and other stakeholders on how best to overhaul the tax code to make it simpler, fairer and more efficient.

The Institute of Internal Auditors plans to launch a Financial Services Audit Center this summer to help internal auditors at financial firms.

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

Financial Accounting Foundation president and CEO Terri Polley sits down with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody to share how the foundation plans to attract more people of color to the profession and why the FAF teamed up with the National Association of Black Accountants.

How should the managing partner or CEO of a firm think and react in order to keep the firm lively and vibrant?

BDO USA has issued its annual list of the top issues it expects to be raised at the annual general meetings of shareholders during the coming year.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice in anticipation of the ABLE tax-free savings accounts that disabled Americans will soon have the ability to set up to cover expenses such as education, housing and transportation.

The Senate has re-introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at making it easier for states to collect sales taxes on online purchases.

A group of Republican senators have introduced legislation to disallow the Earned Income Tax Credit for prior tax years to any immigrants who would benefit from President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform.

Avalara announced the acquisition of the tax content, determination, and compliance technology for Brazil from information and technology consulting company SuitePlus.

Criminal prosecutions by the Internal Revenue Service appear to be timed to coincide with tax season, according to a new analysis.

Pressure from within companies on internal auditors to go easy on their audits remains extensive and pervasive, according to new research.

A majority of technology CFOs in the U.S. have increased their spending on cybersecurity in the last year, according to BDO USA’s annual survey.

Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite announced on Monday that it is the first to certify an application for electronic filing with the Indiana Department of Revenue, effective immediately. 90,000 Indiana S corporations will now be able to electronically file their 2014 annual business tax filings (IT-20S).

Better communication among internal and external auditors and audit committee members can ease some of the tensions, according to a new report.