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Samuel A. Dyckman, CPA, J.D., LL.M., a longtime tax and accounting professor at Baruch College in New York, has died.

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

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that more than 1 million tax payments have been processed so far this year through its new IRS Direct Pay system.

The Obama administration can make tax inversions less economically attractive to U.S. corporations and deter companies from changing their addresses, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said.

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business announced the launch of RBsourceFilings, an add-on to its RBsource product.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has called on Congress today to fully support efforts by federal inspectors general to ensure unrestricted access to information needed for their investigations, as allowed by federal law.

The owner of a Michigan human resource management firm was charged with filing false tax returns on behalf of his business clients.

Avalara announced a new strategic alliance with PayPlus Software, a payroll and employee management software company serving the professional employer organization industry.

Regulators have been clamping down on auditors of broker-dealers in recent years in response to the lack of meaningful audits of Bernard Madoff’s investment firm and other scandals uncovered during the financial crisis.

Salesforce.com announced it has launched a new Salesforce1 Fund to invest in companies that build innovative mobile apps.

I’m a CPA, and I’m here to tell you financial reporting became simpler and easier to use in two significant areas.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a new alert from the PCAOB staff warning auditors about deficiencies that have been seen in audits of revenue figures.

A new report from Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants stresses the importance of strong partnerships between the finance department and other business departments to deliver data insights for better decision support.

The House has passed legislation that would toughen the penalties for criminals who engage in identity theft through stolen tax returns.

The National Society of Accountants honored a number of accountants and NSA Affiliated State Organizations who made strong contributions to the accounting profession at its 69th Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

A pair of CPAs have filed a class-action complaint against the Internal Revenue Service challenging IRS regulations requiring tax practitioners to annually register and pay a fee to the agency to obtain and maintain a Preparer Tax Identification Number.

Henson and his teams work closely with AICPA’s leadership to develop short and long-term strategies as well as market, business, and competitive intelligence for the Institute.

Mark Frissora, chief executive officer of Hertz Global Holdings Inc. stepped down today after investors had pushed for his removal, citing accounting and operational missteps.

The majority of audit committees at Fortune 100 companies are disclosing more information than in years past, especially about their assessment of their outside auditing firm, according to a new report.

A singer known as Remy has written a tongue-in-cheek love song revolving around the Internal Revenue Service’s recent scandals involving its loss of emails from Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit.