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An increasing number of employers are using cash-based long-term incentives as part of their employee compensation programs, according to a new survey.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the Obama administration in a dispute over taxes on severance compensation, overturning a lower court decision that could have forced the IRS to refund more than $1 billion.

Redcort Software has released Virtual TimeClock 14, the latest version of their employee time-clock software.

H&R Block and the National Federation of the Blind announced an agreement to make the tax prep chain’s website, online tax preparation products and mobile applications fully accessible to blind taxpayers.

As the NBA season enters its critical stretch of the remainder of the regular season and tax season winds down, the natural question to ask is this: would LeBron James be as great a CPA as he is a basketball player?

The Tax Court, adding and subtracting “badges” of fraud, has found a California business owner and his companies not liable for a 75 percent civil fraud penalty.

Most people appreciate having choices. But along with having choices comes having to make decisions as well.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice Tuesday saying that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies should be treated as property for federal tax purposes and the general rules for property transactions should apply.

Peter Lang has joined BlumShapiro as a partner in its consulting practice in Newton, Mass.

Three Caribbean-based men who helped Americans hide assets from U.S. tax authorities were charged in a sting operation with laundering what they were told was dirty money.

Caterpillar Inc. began defending its international tax maneuvers as a U.S. Senate investigative panel set an April 1 hearing to examine the company’s “offshore tax strategy.”

Gale Crosley of Crosley + Company talks about the different ways accounting firms are growing by moving away from a book-of-business strategy to a leader-driven and specialist approach, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

Chief audit executives are increasingly using strategies to drive up efficiency in the internal audit process, including a “one-to-many approach.”

The Internal Revenue Service is providing taxpayers in Colorado an extension until Oct. 15, 2014 to decide when to claim disaster losses arising from last September’s flooding.

The Internal Revenue Service initially will make limited use of information supplied by other governments about U.S. citizens’ offshore holdings because of budget constraints, Commissioner John Koskinen said.

I remember hearing a story recently about a worldwide relief agency that wanted to expand the vision and thinking of a third-world leader.

Danny Werfel, the former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, who stepped in last year to try to turn around the agency in the aftermath of a series of scandals, has now joined the Boston Consulting Group’s public sector practice as a director.

Business software provider Open Systems has released the latest version of their accounting software, OSAS version 8.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board voted unanimously Monday not to delay the implementation date of its new pension accounting and financial reporting standards, despite requests from various groups for an indefinite delay.

The representation of women within the leadership of public accounting firms is too low, according to Jeanette Franzel, a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.