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In a turbulent tax season for the company, Intuit reported 19 percent season-to-date growth of TurboTax Online and a 3 percent increase in total company revenue in the second quarter.

Thomson Reuters Checkpoint released a special report on Tuesday, entitled President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget. The President’s budget contains a host of individual and business tax proposals. This report examines some of the budget’s highlights, including the President’s strategy to strengthen the middle class and help working families.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday morning announced it will implement a special enrollment period for individuals who learn, at the time they file their taxes, of the Affordable Care Act-mandated tax penalty for not having health insurance coverage.

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

Three Swiss bankers accused in 2012 of helping Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service face new charges of obstructing the agency from collecting taxes on undeclared accounts.

It takes a heap o’ living just to make a house a home, as the old poem teaches. In Joel Evans’ case, he did enough living in two houses in Louisiana to make the U.S. his tax home.

FileThis Pro launched an integration with SmartVault, provider of SaaS online document storage and secure file sharing solutions.

Approximately one-third (32 percent) of CFOs in a recent survey believe they would be more productive if their employees had greater autonomy at work.

Acumatica announced five new technology partners to join the cloud-based business management software provider’s ecosystem.

The Internal Revenue Service recently created a group whose goal is to centralize several prior ad hoc efforts to authenticate taxpayers across its systems in an effort to combat identity theft-related tax fraud, but the IRS lacks a good estimate of the costs, benefits and risks, according to a new government report.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state is expanding its network of free tax assistance sites, opening 80 new sites across the Empire State and offering 942 free sessions to New Yorkers, while also dedicating more money toward combating tax fraud.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education explains the various components of the CPA Exam, and how to pass them, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

H&R Block is warning that taxpayers in 12 states will be unable to use certain federal tax breaks on their state tax returns because of Congress’s late passage of tax extenders legislation, leading to lower state tax refunds.

Caterpillar Inc. said the Internal Revenue Service has “proposed” tax increases and penalties of about $1 billion after examining its U.S. returns for 2007 to 2009, including a loss carryback to 2005.

A CPA has released what he is calling a “survival kit” for the Internal Revenue Service’s recently revised repair regulations for tangible property.

Ah, the emotions of tax season: the rising sense of intensity and excitement followed by the descent into exhaustion.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education discusses the declining number of people who are taking the CPA Exam, and why it's important for more accountants to sit for the exam, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Internal Revenue Service warned tax preparers and other tax professionals to be on guard against bogus emails seeking updated personal or professional information that in reality are phishing schemes.

The Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would delay enforcement of an Affordable Care Act prohibition relating to standalone health reimbursement arrangements until July 1.

A group of plaintiffs are suing the Treasury Department, the Social Security Administration, and the District of Columbia, claiming the federal government is continuing to hold onto their tax refunds to pay for supposed overpayments of Social Security benefits decades ago.