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The Internal Revenue Service is warning consumers to beware of a new email phishing scam in which fraudulent emails purport to come from the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service, complete with a bogus case number.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Steven Harris said the major auditing firms should begin providing their own financial statements to the PCAOB.

Tax returns filed this season by tax professionals are down 1.3 percent so far compared to last year, while self-prepared returns are up 5.9 percent, according to the latest IRS statistics.

The Internal Revenue Service is permitting millions of dollars in potentially improper self-employed retirement plan deductions to be claimed, according to a new government report, which estimates that up to $71.4 million over five years could be saved with better controls.

State tax exam information requests are increasingly becoming more comprehensive and demanding.

Most organizations lack the IT infrastructure needed to meet staff and customer needs, according to a new study by Softchoice and VMware.

A decade ago, few of us had heard of identity theft. Now, most of us know someone who has been a victim. And of course, a large portion of ID theft affects tax preparers and taxpayers directly, since tax refunds are a huge target of identity thieves.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Jeanette Franzel described a “perfect storm” of issues that auditors are facing with the internal controls of organizations today during a speech at an auditing conference.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has created an American Center for Government Auditing and compiled an inaugural list of the Most Influential Professionals in Government Auditing in recognition of professionals who have positively impacted the practice of auditing in the public sector.

With the April 15 tax day quickly approaching, a leading online tax preparer school is offering its own kind of relief in the form of student scholarships.

Deltek announced the acquisition of enterprise software provider Sohnar and its Traffic LIVE solution.

The Internal Revenue Service is providing guidance for 2014 that will allow taxpayers who are the victims of domestic violence to satisfy a joint filing requirement with a married-filing-separate return in order to obtain the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credit.

There is a certain hour during the day when you just want to be done. Sometimes it hits predictably in the mid-afternoon. Other times it sneaks up on you as personalities clash in the office, a client makes yet another last-minute request, or the gas tank light goes on while you are stuck in the evening traffic.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and two other prominent Senate Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday to update the Tax Code to help workers and families keep more of what they earn, but also double the penalty on tax preparers who do not follow the Internal Revenue Service’s due diligence requirements for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Thomson Reuters has released a new global integration framework for its ONESOURCE Indirect Tax solution to work with the SAP ERP application in handling global indirect taxes.

The accounting profession's expectations for economic growth headed downward again, with drops in both their short-term and mid-term forecasts, according to the March edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do better at enabling its frontline employees to identify potentially dangerous tax practitioners, according to a new government report that found at least 84 taxpayer representatives who represented a threat to IRS employees and at least two instances of physical assault.

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

Robert Bruning, a managing partner of EY’s San Diego practice, has been honored by the University of San Diego with the Author E. Hughes Award for Career Achievement.