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The Internal Revenue Service said that the sequestration process could have an impact on the amount that certain small tax-exempt employers receive on the refundable portion of the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit.

Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., who chairs the House Small Business Committee, has sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen asking the IRS to do more outreach and education to help small businesses deal with the new forms required for the Affordable Care Act.

Sean Denham has been promoted to office managing partner for Grant Thornton LLP’ Philadelphia practice. Prior to his promotion Denham was the leader of the firm’s Northeast region Audit practice and as assistant office managing partner of operations and quality for the New York practice.

On Oct. 2, JPMorgan Chase disclosed in a securities filing that a recent data breach to the bank impacts 76 million U.S. households.

Payroll giant ADP has released a new report indicating that wage growth has been accelerating since the beginning of last year.

The IRS, aiming to facilitate U.S. treatment regarding two popular Canadian retirement plans, has simplified procedures for Americans in those plans.

An alternate financial reporting tool is available for small- and medium-sized entities.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board announced the launch of the Enterprise Resource Platform Partnership Program for software providers.

Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen has written a letter to the leaders of Congress’s main tax committees urging them to decide soon on what to do about extending dozens of expired tax provisions, or else next tax season and the processing of tax refunds could be delayed.

PricewaterhouseCoopers reported Tuesday that its global revenues in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 increased 6 percent to $34 billion.

The Brilliant Q4 2014 accounting, finance and IT Hiring Forecast reported open positions and robust plans for increased hiring of accounting, finance and IT professionals in Q4 2014, both permanent and temporary.

A tax return preparer in East Orange, N.J., has pleaded guilty to willfully preparing false tax returns for clients.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by a Verizon Communications Inc. unit in a $51 million fight over taxes on a now-obsolete service used to connect to the Internet with a dial-up modem.

The staffing company Accounting Principals has released its 2015 salary guide for accounting and finance professionals.

Close your eyes and imagine a young child—two or three years old perhaps. Opinionated, loud, brave, obnoxious, sensitive, thoughtful, uncouth, stubborn, covered in mud, scratches, and Sharpie marks, this child can be the best sales teacher you will ever have.

Approximately 9,000 current and former female employees of KPMG are receiving notices this week about the opportunity to join a class-action lawsuit against the firm involving the Equal Pay Act, claiming they were paid less than their male counterparts.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is splitting into two companies, using a breakup to become nimbler after failing to keep up with the shift away from the printing and personal-computing businesses it pioneered.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act requirements for about 11 percent of the requests it received for information, according to a new report.

A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for threatening to assault and murder an Internal Revenue Service agent and his family.

For better or worse, our lives have become more dictated by the buzz of our smartphones, from alarms to social media notifications.