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The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday its new Web-based system, IRS Direct Pay, has been used by more than 150,000 taxpayers so far.

Eide Bailly has expanded its offering into Washington with the addition of McDirmid, Mikkelsen & Secrest. The deal is expected to close on June 16.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Employee Plans Compliance Unit recently looked at whether employee benefit plan sponsors had completed all the necessary steps after filing a Form 5500-series return showing they had adopted a resolution to terminate the plan, and found that many did not.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it will begin a one-year pilot program in June to help small businesses with retirement plans that owe penalties for not filing reporting documents.

Financial stress among employees increased significantly last year, according to a new survey, with 23 percent reporting "high" or "overwhelming" levels of financial stress compared to only 18 percent in 2012 and 19 percent in 2011.

The Association for Financial Professionals has introduced a global credential for corporate financial planning and analysis professionals.

WeiserMazars LLP has completed its merger with ICS Consulting Partners, a boutique internal audit, regulatory compliance and credit risk management consulting firm catering to the banking industry.

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

Keeping your staff happy and feeling appreciated is one of the primary challenges facing accounting managers today.

The American Institute of CPAs is working with the College Board to develop an advanced placement course in accounting for high school students.

Tayiika Dennis, a senior manager at NSBN LLP and vice president of the CalCPA Los Angeles Chapter, has been honored with a Woman to Watch Award for 2014.

Twenty-five percent of Americans across all age groups admit they are not saving at all for retirement, or are unsure, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Free File Alliance, have signed a one-year extension of their partnership to makes free tax software available to taxpayers.

The balances of Roth IRAs grew at more than double the rate of traditional individual retirement accounts from 2010 to 2012, according to a new analysis by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Organizations across the globe are losing an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to occupational fraud, according to a new report from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, with total losses estimated at about $3.5 trillion.

PowerPlan has released latest version 10.4.2, which includes a module built specifically for Master Limited Partnerships.

Thomson Reuters announced several enhancements to its Accelus Risk Manager.

The Center for Audit Quality plans to fund four new academic research projects after requesting proposals last December.

When I first started writing this post, it was going to be on Network Attached Storage (NAS).

Credit Suisse AG, which pleaded guilty Monday to helping Americans evade taxes, has so far avoided identifying thousands of customers who cheated the Internal Revenue Service. Instead, it promised to point investigators in the right direction.