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The IRS announced that professional tax preparers can now register for or renew their PTINs on IRS.gov.

A former UBS AG executive gave a primer on the workings of Swiss bank secrecy to a Florida jury hearing the tax-conspiracy trial of Raoul Weil, who once ran the bank’s global wealth-management business.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it is accepting applications for research fellowships for next year.

Middle-market companies have had a tough couple of years on the tax front, according to a survey by Top 5 firm McGladrey LLP.

As traveling professionals know, it's best to stick with the familiar out on the road. Supporting this, big brands reigned supreme when cloud-based travel and expense management software provider Certify recently shared their findings on millions of receipts and expenses for the third quarter of 2014.

As a manager at a CPA firm, I am constantly looking to expand my network in search of developing new opportunities for my firm.

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

To advocate free services for low-to-moderate income taxpayers, top officials from the New York State Tax Department and the United Way of Northern New York met today in the first ever North Country Community Outreach Tax Summit.

Creating a Chief Growth Officer or Chief Marketing Officer position is the trend among larger professional services firms today. It’s a good idea for yours, too.

The Internal Revenue Service paid approximately $33 million for paper tax records storage services in fiscal year 2013, and as of March 2014, and the agency had 5.42 million cubic feet of paper tax records stored at various Federal Records Centers across the country, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always follow its own internal procedures for undelivered tax lien notices, according to a new government report.

Raoul Weil, once the head of UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, didn’t know that “rogue” underlings were helping Americans evade taxes, his lawyer told jurors at the start of a trial in Florida.

The IFRS Foundation has launched eIFRS Professional, a new way for accountants to access information online about International Financial Reporting Standards.

AbbVie Inc. may scrap or renegotiate its planned 32.4-billion-pound ($51.5 billion) deal for Dublin-based drugmaker Shire Plc, in what would be the biggest casualty of the U.S. crackdown on so-called tax inversions.

Jose Vila has joined Cherry Bekaert LLP as an audit partner in the firm’s South Florida practice.

After a slight dip in September, the Accountants Confidence Index continued its downward trajectory, with both the short- and the mid-term measures declining, and short-term expectations dropping into contractionary territory.

BDO USA LLP said Tuesday that Matthew Becker, Stephanie Giammarco and Christopher Orella have each been elected to three-year terms on the firm’s board of directors.

Deloitte’s digital unit has expanded CloudMix, a pre-configured, pre-integrated system that ties together several cloud technology products, by including software from Dell, Apttus, DocuSign and Box in the new version, CloudMix 2.0.

Ireland’s government will phase out a tax shelter used by U.S. companies from Google Inc. to LinkedIn Corp., amid mounting pressure from international authorities.

Xero announced it passed $100 million in annualized committed monthly revenue and has achieved a 95 percent year-over-year growth rate in subscription revenue.